Long Early Learning Center

Size

Long Early Learning Center is the largest of Abilene ISD's 2 schools; its 692 students are 4.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 96.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 191; Long Early Learning Center is larger than most of them.

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

Long Early Learning Center serves a single grade, pre-K, with 692 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 49.3% here and 47.4% across Abilene ISD. White students are next, at 23.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 68.7% across Abilene ISD and a median of 85.7% for Texas schools. 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 48.48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 692 students, Long Early Learning Center has 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 17, a school with 692 students would have about 40.7 teachers, so Long Early Learning Center has 7.8 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (17).

Location

Long Early Learning Center is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other school is Crockett Early Headstart, 3 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 2 other schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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