Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Early Childhood Ctr., Desoto, MO

Early Childhood Ctr. is a public prekindergarten school in Desoto, part of Desoto 73 School District. It enrolled 146 students in 2024-25, with 12.2 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR.".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 146
Teachers (FTE): 12.0
Students per teacher: 12.2
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.4. The Missouri average across schools is 13.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.2

District12.4

Missouri13.0

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1812 Rock Rd, Desoto, MO 63020
Phone: (636)586-1040
District: Desoto 73 School District
County: Jefferson County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Fringe
NCES school ID: 291050002993

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 52
Reduced-price lunch: 20
Free or reduced-price lunch: 7249.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 34Students 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.