Jefferson Early Childhood Center

Jefferson Early Childhood Center is a small elementary school in Illinois, with an address in Wheaton. The school offers pre-K and enrolls 302 students. That puts enrollment 21% below the 381-student average for elementary schools in Illinois.

CUSD 200 is responsible for 20 schools, Jefferson Early Childhood Center included, with 11,639 students in all.

White students are 54% of those enrolled at Jefferson Early Childhood Center. The remaining shares are 23% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% Black, and 7% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of DuPage County's population at about 65%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.

Jefferson Early Childhood Center has 16.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.4:1. The school's 18.4:1 compares with an average of 13.9:1 for elementary schools in Illinois.

In the wider DuPage County area, median household income comes to about $112,096, roughly 52% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. DuPage County counts 277 public schools with about 138,557 students.

Measured in a straight line, Monroe Middle School is about 0.3 miles from Jefferson Early Childhood Center. The five-mile area around Jefferson Early Childhood Center holds at least 8 other public schools.

For locale, NCES codes Jefferson Early Childhood Center as Suburb: Large.

Enrollment was 214 in 2020-21 and 302 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves.

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