Hazelwood, MO has twenty-eight early childhood education schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Webster University, the highest ranked school in this group with an early childhood education program, has a total student population of 19,372. It is the 177th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Missouri. To learn more about early childhood education programs in Hazelwood, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of early childhood education professors at Webster University such as Mary Bevel, Cheryl Brieg-Allen, Eric Flack, Theodore Green, Cathie Korobey, and Terence Ma.
Early Childhood Education students from Hazelwood schools who go on to become early childhood educators, preschool teachers, kindergarten teachers, early childhood teachers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 51,140 people working as education administrators, preschool and child care center/program alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $48,170. Also, Elementary school teachers make on average $53,150 per year and there are about 1,544,300 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the St. Louis-IL area alone, there are 13,060 employed elementary school teachers earning an average salary of $49,620. Education administrators, preschool and child care center/program in this area earn $43,380/yr and there are 610 employed.
Hazelwood lies in St. Louis county, which is one of the 39 counties in Missouri. Overall, the St. Louis-IL area has 1,301,320 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $20.63/hr average worker wage, and a $42,900 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.465 out of every 1000 jobs in Hazelwood are held by education administrators, preschool and child care center/program, and 10.037/1000 are held by elementary school teachers.
Of the 28 early childhood education schools with a 100-mile radius of Hazelwood, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Lindenwood University comes out as the most expensive ($26,896/yr) for early childhood education students, with John A Logan College as the lowest, reported at only $2,714/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Hazelwood |
| Maryland Heights | MO | - | 1 | 21.4481 | 9 | 5.1 miles |
| Saint Charles | MO | 65,986 | 1 | 57.1604 | 124 | 8.1 miles |
| Saint Louis | MO | 349,763 | 28 | 21.7118 | 925 | 11.5 miles |
| Saint Peters | MO | 56,697 | 1 | 24.7073 | 15 | 12.9 miles |
| Kirkwood | MO | - | 2 | 24.7185 | 61 | 13.1 miles |
| Chesterfield | MO | 45,849 | 1 | 1.31326 | 0 | 14.1 miles |
| Cottleville | MO | - | 1 | 10.8568 | 31 | 15.3 miles |
| Godfrey | IL | - | 2 | 21.6011 | 72 | 16.1 miles |
| Fenton | MO | - | 3 | 27.4018 | 31 | 18.2 miles |
| Wildwood | MO | - | 1 | 4.74776 | 2 | 20.5 miles |
| Collinsville | IL | - | 1 | 18.1205 | 6 | 22.0 miles |
| Edwardsville | IL | - | 2 | 28.8318 | 95 | 22.7 miles |
| Belleville | IL | 41,090 | 4 | 26.9391 | 109 | 26.1 miles |
| Carlinville | IL | - | 1 | 19.8699 | 53 | 43.9 miles |
| Rolla | MO | - | 3 | 28.6442 | 83 | 94.8 miles |
| Carterville | IL | - | 1 | 13.1135 | 74 | 99.1 miles |
| Jefferson City | MO | 41,319 | 4 | 29.412 | 201 | 99.2 miles |