EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR

Located at 4810 MEADOWS PKWY, in ST CHARLES, Missouri, EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR is a small K-5 school that instructs 224 students (grade pre-K), overseen by FRANCIS HOWELL R-III. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR sits 29% leaner than that benchmark.

EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR is one of 21 schools operated by FRANCIS HOWELL R-III, a district that works with 17,047 students overall.

Demographically, EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Charles County (around 19%), the school's rate is south of typical.

In the area at large, St. Charles County reports that median household income runs about $104,692, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, St. Charles County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), of which EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR is one.

INDEPENDENCE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC. CTR.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 304 students in 2018 compared to 224 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 80% to 72% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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