EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

Located at 1571 BAGNELL DAM BLVD., in LAKE OZARK, Missouri, EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is a micro-enrollment elementary-level community that caters to 86 students (grade pre-K), overseen by SCHOOL OF THE OSAGE. Enrollment runs roughly 73% leaner than the state mean of about 315.

Within SCHOOL OF THE OSAGE, which oversees 5 schools and 2,006 students, EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

On the resource side, On paper, EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 33% of students at EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,387 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Camden County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,831 students), of which EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one.

HERITAGE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.