Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center

In Pekin, Illinois, Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center is a low-enrollment elementary school. It enrolled 201 students in pre-K for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 47% lower than the average for elementary schools in Illinois, which is about 381.

Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center is among 11 schools run by Pekin PSD 108, which serves 3,126 students.

White students are the large majority at Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center, with 85% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 9% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. Among people living in Tazewell County, the White share is about 93%. Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center has a diversity index of 28%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 22.3:1, with 9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in Illinois, the typical ratio is 13.9:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center is 78%. For comparison, public schools in Tazewell County average 39%.

Among Tazewell County residents, median household income is about $77,982, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center is one of 56 public schools in Tazewell County, which together enroll about 18,581 students.

Nearest public school: Dirksen Elementary School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center holds at least 8 other public schools.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The student count in 2024-25 was 201, 26% above the 159 of 2020-21.

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