Jefferson Early Learning Center

• ED has no 2022-23 chronic absence count for this school.
• ED’s own figures for 2022-23: 30.8% for its district and 27.3% for Minnesota.

• A public prekindergarten school for grade pre-K.
• Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
• In 2024-25, 69% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 18 of the 26 enrolled on October 1: 18 for free lunch and 0 for reduced-price.
• NCES counts 15 students directly certified for free meals in 2024-25, without an application, through their families’ part in programs such as SNAP.
• It serves every student free meals under the Community Eligibility Provision, which takes no applications, so states count eligibility at such schools in different ways.
• NCES’s 2021-22 estimates of poverty around schools don’t include this one.
• Grade pre-K.

What the school reported to the Office for Civil Rights for 2023-24. These are the school’s own counts, not findings.

• There aren’t enough nearby public prekindergarten schools in Minnesota with 2022-23 chronic absence figures to compare.

• Run by Willmar Public School District, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
• District spending, fiscal year 2024: Willmar Public School District spent $16,523 per student, by the Census Bureau’s count of the district’s spending and its 4,220 students, of which $10,303 went on instruction and $5,226 on support services such as administration, buildings and transport.
• That is the district’s figure across all its schools, not this school’s own: its day-to-day spending on salaries, benefits, services and supplies, not on construction, equipment, debt or payments to other school systems.

• Federal school data don’t record findings against a school: the counts here are what the school reported, and the Office for Civil Rights’ own investigations aren’t included.

• Federal school data arrive one to three years after the school year they describe, so each figure here carries its own year.
• To protect students’ privacy, ED adds or takes away one at random from chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
• ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.

• National Center for Education Statistics, School directory, 2025-26 (preliminary).

  Released Jul 1, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 2024-25.

  Released Dec 29, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• National Center for Education Statistics, School locations, 2024-25.

  Released Dec 19, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• National Center for Education Statistics, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22 (American Community Survey, 2018-2022).

  Released Oct 15, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables.

  Released May 7, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (a U.S. government work), cited to the Census Bureau as it asks.

• National Center for Education Statistics, School membership, 2022-23 (v.1a).

  Released Jan 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, Chronic absenteeism, 2022-23.

  Released Nov 7, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).

• U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23.

  Released Dec 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).

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