Creston Early Childhood Center

Set in Creston, Iowa, Creston Early Childhood Center is a tight-knit primary school, run under Creston Comm School District. It hosts 142 students across grades pre-K through K. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Creston Early Childhood Center sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Creston Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,303 students; Creston Early Childhood Center is among them.

Looking at the student body, Creston Early Childhood Center shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Union County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Union County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,772 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Union County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,746 students), Creston Early Childhood Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Creston High School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Creston Early Childhood Center.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creston Early Childhood Center has ticked up 17%, going from 121 students in 2018 to 142 in 2025.

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