Elementary · Iowa
Early Childhood Center
Free meals for allEarly Childhood Center, a public elementary school in Fort Dodge, Iowa: grades pre-k–k, 376 students, 13.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Fort Dodge Comm School District.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 376
- Teachers (FTE)
- 27.8
- Students per teacher
- 13.5
- Grades
- Pre-K–K
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 53% of elementary schools in Iowa
Median 13.3 · 668 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 62% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 62% of elementary schools in Iowa
Median 320 · 669 schools compared
Smaller than 58% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 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
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–K
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Fort Dodge Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 104 So. 17th St., Fort Dodge, IA 50501
- Phone
- (515)574-5740
- City or town
- Fort Dodge
- County
- Webster County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Duncombe Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 1–5 | 438 | 14.4 |
Butler Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 1–5 | 328 | 13.2 |
Cooper Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 1–5 | 231 | 14.2 |
Feelhaver Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 1–5 | 227 | 17.0 |
| Pre-K–6 | 439 | 14.8 | |
| Pre-K–K | 139 | 19.3 |
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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