Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Early Childhood Center, Montrose, CO

CEP schoolEarly Childhood Center is a public prekindergarten school in Montrose, part of Montrose County School District Re-1J. It enrolled 162 students in 2024-25, with 40.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 162
Teachers (FTE): 4.0
Students per teacher: 40.5
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is 23.5 higher than the district figure of 17.0. The Colorado average across schools is 16.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school40.5

District17.0

Colorado16.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 900 Colorado Avenue, Montrose, CO 81401
Phone: (970)249-5858
District: Montrose County School District Re-1J
County: Montrose County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Remote
NCES school ID: 080579000250

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 113
Reduced-price lunch: 13
Free or reduced-price lunch: 12677.8% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.