Early Childhood Center

Early Childhood Center is a public elementary school in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Students in pre-K make up the school's enrollment of 195 students. Elementary schools in Massachusetts average about 381 students, which makes this school 49% below average.

Marlborough has a total of 7 schools and 4,728 students, Early Childhood Center among them.

More than half of enrollment at Early Childhood Center is White: 56%. Other groups make up 29% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% Black, and 3% multiracial. Middlesex County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school's share is lower. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Early Childhood Center scores 59%.

Early Childhood Center has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1, with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts, this school's ratio is higher.

In Middlesex County, home to about 1,638,365 people, median household income comes to about $130,847, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 386 public schools in the county, enrolling about 215,896, Early Childhood Center among them.

1 LT Charles W. Whitcomb School is about 0.6 miles from Early Childhood Center, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Federal enrollment counts rose from 157 (2020-21) to 195 (2024-25).

Anyone can start a thread about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Early Childhood Center. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.