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Morton Early Learning Center, Hastings, NE

Morton Early Learning Center is a public prekindergarten school in Hastings, part of Hastings Public Schools. It enrolled 501 students in 2024-25, with 45.5 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "MORTON EARLY LEARNING CENTER".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
501
Teachers (FTE)
11.0
Students per teacher
45.5
Grades
PK

This school's ratio is 31.6 higher than the district figure of 13.9. The Nebraska average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school45.5
District13.9
Nebraska14.1
United States15.3

School details

Address
1515 West 8th Street, Hastings, NE 68901
Phone
(402)461-7545
District
Hastings Public Schools
County
Adams County
Level
Prekindergarten
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Distant
NCES school ID
317158002433
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
40
Reduced-price lunch
4
Free or reduced-price lunch
448.8% of enrollment.
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 Hastings

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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.