EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION

EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION is an elementary school of close-knit scale in ST LOUIS, Missouri, operated by RIVERVIEW GARDENS, educateing 248 students in grade pre-K. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

RIVERVIEW GARDENS comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,116 students; EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION is among them.

On demographics, EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION lists that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

In the area at large, census data for St. Louis County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DANFORTH ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION's enrollment has expanded 24% since 2018, when it stood at 200 (now 248). Class-load math has widened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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