CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH

CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Columbia, Missouri, operated by COLUMBIA 93, with 458 students on its rolls from grade pre-K. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH sits 45% bigger than that benchmark.

COLUMBIA 93 comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 18,640 students; CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH is among them.

Looking at the student body, CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH logs that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Black, 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH lists 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for Boone County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,758 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Boone County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), of which CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH is one.

JOHN B. LANGE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTER FOR EARLY LRNING-NORTH has rose 82%, going from 251 students in 2018 to 458 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 35% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 5.9:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 today.

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