Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Dedre' & Ella Jefferson Early Learning Center, Houston, TX

Dedre' & Ella Jefferson Early Learning Center is a public prekindergarten school in Houston, part of Alief ISD. It enrolled 388 students in 2024-25, with 14.4 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "DEDRE' & ELLA JEFFERSON EARLY LEARNING CENTER".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 388
Teachers (FTE): 27.0
Students per teacher: 14.4
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is 0.8 higher than the district figure of 13.6. The Texas average across schools is 15.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.4

District13.6

Texas15.1

United States15.3

School details

Address: 14061 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX 77083
Phone: (281)988-3515
District: Alief ISD
County: Harris County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 480783014252

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 304
Reduced-price lunch: 35
Free or reduced-price lunch: 33987.4% 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

Other prekindergarten schools in Alief ISD

Maria del Carmen Martinez Early Learning Center 335 students

Prekindergarten schools elsewhere in Houston

Nci Charter School Without Walls Bakerripley Community Schools
The Tiger Trail School Spring Branch ISD
The Lion Lane School Spring Branch ISD
The Wildcat Way School Spring Branch ISD
The Bear Blvd School Spring Branch ISD
Energized for Excellence Academy Ecc Houston ISD
R D S P D Houston ISD
New Neighbor Campus Bakerripley Community Schools

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.