Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK
Rising Star Early Childhood Education Center at Melchers, Fredericksburg, VA
Rising Star Early Childhood Education Center at Melchers is a public prekindergarten school in Fredericksburg, part of Stafford County Public Schools. It enrolled 280 students in 2024-25, with 9.7 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 280
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.0
- Students per teacher
- 9.7
- Grades
- PK
This school's ratio is 3.9 lower than the district figure of 13.6. The Virginia average across schools is 14.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school9.7
District13.6
Virginia14.0
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 610 Gayle Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22405
- Phone
- (540)368-2559
- District
- Stafford County Public Schools
- County
- Stafford County
- Level
- Prekindergarten
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 510366003069
Related schools
Other prekindergarten schools in Stafford County Public Schools
- North Star Early Childhood Education Center 264 students
Prekindergarten schools elsewhere in Fredericksburg
- Walker-Grant Early Childhood Center Fredericksburg City Public 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.