Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Early Childhood Center, Republic, MO

Early Childhood Center is a public prekindergarten school in Republic, part of Republic R-Iii School District. It enrolled 234 students in 2024-25, with 15.6 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 234
Teachers (FTE): 15.0
Students per teacher: 15.6
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is 0.8 higher than the district figure of 14.8. The Missouri average across schools is 13.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.6

District14.8

Missouri13.0

United States15.3

School details

Address: 318 E. Hines St., Republic, MO 65738
Phone: (417)732-3605
District: Republic R-Iii School District
County: Greene County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Fringe
NCES school ID: 292622002733

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 66
Reduced-price lunch: 23
Free or reduced-price lunch: 8938.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 33Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

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.