Early Childhood Center

As a close-knit elementary-level community in Methuen, Massachusetts, Early Childhood Center educates 163 students from grades pre-K through K, one of the schools within Methuen. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 381.

Within Methuen, which oversees 6 schools and 6,464 students, Early Childhood Center is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Early Childhood Center logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 23% White, 13% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, Early Childhood Center logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Essex County runs 221 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students), of which Early Childhood Center is one.

The closest other public school is Gr Lawrence Regional Vocational Technical, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

On this page, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.