WEST EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

• ED has no 2022-23 chronic absence count for this school.
• ED’s own figures for 2022-23: 38.7% for its district and 20.5% for Missouri.

• A public prekindergarten school for grade pre-K.
• Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
• No students were enrolled in a gifted and talented program in 2023-24, as the CRDC records it.
• In 2024-25, 96% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 65 of the 68 enrolled on October 1: 65 for free lunch and 0 for reduced-price.
• NCES counts 33 students directly certified for free meals in 2024-25, without an application, through their families’ part in programs such as SNAP.
• Around the school, a family with children aged 5 to 17 has an income of about 339% of the federal poverty threshold for its size (100% is at the threshold), by NCES’s 2021-22 estimate from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey of 2018-2022; its standard error is 87 points.
• That describes the school’s neighbourhood, which NCES says may differ from the neighbourhoods its students live in.
• 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 Missouri with 2022-23 chronic absence figures to compare.
• Students per teacher in 2024-25, by NCES’s counts: 7.6 here; the middle value among them was 9.9.

• Run by HAZELWOOD, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
• District spending, fiscal year 2024: HAZELWOOD spent $14,941 per student, by the Census Bureau’s count of the district’s spending and its 16,262 students, of which $8,189 went on instruction and $6,250 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.
• The Civil Rights Data Collection is gathered every two years and published about two years later: its 2023-24 figures came out in August 2026.
• To protect students’ privacy, the Office for Civil Rights adds or takes away one at random from counts of students, and ED does the same for chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
• Where the public file shows code −10, “Suppressed in compliance with Executive Order” 14168, figures are withheld: students reported as nonbinary, and harassment allegations based on gender identity, are left out of the counts here.
• The 2021-22 collection didn’t include teacher experience, so there’s no earlier figure to compare it with.
• ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.
• Some of this school’s 2023-24 figures are blank in the CRDC’s public file; each one says why.

• 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, Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2023-24.

  Released Aug 31, 2026 and checked Oct 17, 2026. Updated every two years. CC BY (as data.ed.gov lists the CRDC).

• 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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