Pre-K · Illinois
Mercer County ELC
Free meals for allMercer County ELC, a public pre-k school in Joy, Illinois: grade pre-k, 66 students, 22.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mercer County School District 404.
Size and class size
Compared with pre-K centers of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 66
- Teachers (FTE)
- 3.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.0
- Grades
- Pre-K
- Pre-K
More students per teacher than 67% of pre-K centers in Illinois
Median 18.3 · 100 schools compared
More students per teacher than 75% of pre-K centers in the US
Median 16.0 · 1,186 schools compared
Smaller than 86% of pre-K centers in Illinois
Median 182 · 103 schools compared
Smaller than 70% of pre-K centers in the US
Median 117 · 1,436 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- Pre-K · Grade Pre-K
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant rural area
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mercer County School District 404.
Location
- Address
- 203 N Washington St, Joy, IL 61260
- Phone
- (309)584-5001
- City or town
- Joy
- County
- Mercer County
Nearby pre-K centers
The closest public pre-K centers by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Muskie Early Learning CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K | 261 | 17.8 |
| Pre-K | 50 | 16.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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