Pre-K · Illinois
Pershing Early Learning Center
Free meals for allPershing Early Learning Center, a public pre-k school in Decatur, Illinois: grade pre-k, 416 students, 26.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Decatur SD 61.
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
- 416
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.0
- Students per teacher
- 26.0
- Grades
- Pre-K
- Pre-K
More students per teacher than 87% of pre-K centers in Illinois
Median 18.3 · 100 schools compared
More students per teacher than 83% of pre-K centers in the US
Median 16.0 · 1,186 schools compared
Larger than 86% of pre-K centers in Illinois
Median 182 · 103 schools compared
Larger than 96% 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
- Small city
- Run by
- Decatur SD 61
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Decatur SD 61.
Location
- Address
- 2912 N University Ave, Decatur, IL 62526
- Phone
- (217)362-3301
- City or town
- Decatur
- County
- Macon County
Nearby pre-K centers
The closest public pre-K centers by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
No other public pre-K centers within 25 miles.
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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