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John Cary Early Childhood Ctr., St Louis, MO

John Cary Early Childhood Ctr. is a public prekindergarten school in St Louis, part of Mehlville R-Ix School District. It enrolled 311 students in 2024-25, with 13.5 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "JOHN CARY EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR.".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
311
Teachers (FTE)
23.0
Students per teacher
13.5
Grades
PK

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.0. The Missouri average across schools is 13.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.5
District14.0
Missouri13.0
United States15.3

School details

Address
3155 Koch Rd, St Louis, MO 63125
Phone
(314)467-5300
District
Mehlville R-Ix School District
County
St. Louis County
Level
Prekindergarten
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
292067002996
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
35
Reduced-price lunch
5
Free or reduced-price lunch
4012.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
29Students 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.

Related schools

Prekindergarten schools elsewhere in St Louis

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.