Pre-K · Virginia
Watkins Early Childhood Center
Free meals for allWatkins Early Childhood Center, a public pre-k school in Newport News, Virginia: grade pre-k, 326 students, 14.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Newport News City Public Schools.
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
- 326
- Teachers (FTE)
- 23.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.2
- Grades
- Pre-K
- Pre-K
More students per teacher than 74% of pre-K centers in Virginia
Median 11.2 · 34 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 61% of pre-K centers in the US
Median 16.0 · 1,186 schools compared
Larger than 88% of pre-K centers in Virginia
Median 176 · 34 schools compared
Larger than 91% 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
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Newport News City Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 21 Burns Drive, Newport News, VA 23601
- Phone
- (757)591-4815
- City or town
- Newport News
- County
- Newport News city
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Denbigh Early Childhood CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K | 397 | 15.3 |
Moton Early Childhood CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K | 226 | 12.6 |
Willoughby Early Childhood CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K | 181 | 9.5 |
| Pre-K | 112 | 10.2 | |
Olive Branch Preschool CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K | 171 | 8.6 |
Mount Hermon Preschool CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K | 208 | 10.4 |
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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