Wilkinson Early Childhood Center

Size

Of the 42 elementary schools in St. Louis City School District, Wilkinson Early Childhood Center is the 12th largest, with 1.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 357; Wilkinson Early Childhood Center is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 141 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 40, against an average of 76 per grade. This year grade 2 has 45% fewer students than kindergarten (40 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 141 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 62.8% here and 74.8% across St. Louis City. White students are next, at 31.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 30.3% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 304 students, Wilkinson Early Childhood Center has 12.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 304 students would have about 24.7 teachers, so Wilkinson Early Childhood Center has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Wilkinson Early Childhood Center is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Mrh Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District. Within 10 miles there are 147 other elementary schools, 66 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.