Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Paducah Head Start Preschool, Paducah, KY

CEP schoolPaducah Head Start Preschool is a public prekindergarten school in Paducah, part of Paducah Independent School District. It enrolled 251 students in 2024-25, with 13.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 251
Teachers (FTE): 18.0
Students per teacher: 13.9
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.4. The Kentucky average across schools is 15.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.9

District14.4

Kentucky15.6

United States15.3

School details

Address: 2200 Washington Street, Paducah, KY 42003
Phone: (270)444-5780
District: Paducah Independent School District
County: McCracken County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Small
NCES school ID: 210465001571

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 216
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 21686.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 216Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
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.