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OUR PROGRAM

Carlisle Local School District offers a high-quality preschool program in accordance with federal mandates. Our program serves children ages 3 to 5 who qualify for special education services, as well as typically developing peers who attend through tuition enrollment.

We provide a nurturing, inclusive environment that fosters young children’s intellectual, academic, and social development. Our blended model is based on the belief that preschool-aged children with disabilities and their typically developing peers can learn and grow together. Each center-based classroom is thoughtfully structured to include an equal number of students from both groups, creating a dynamic and supportive learning community.

Our preschool teachers have a Bachelor’s and/or a Master’s degree and are highly qualified in the area of early childhood education. Your child’s growth in school will be fostered through the provision of a safe, structured, stimulating, and cultivating environment based on developmentally appropriate experiences that will facilitate progress in the cognitive, social, emotional, communicative, and motor domains and will be tailored to each child’s needs.

The preschool program curriculum is guided by Ohio’s Early Learning and Development Standards. Teachers plan activities based on the understanding that children learn about their world as they engage in play and meaningful interactions with people and objects in the environment. The program incorporates songs, books, puzzles/blocks, art, dramatic play, gross motor/playground, and early literacy and numeracy activities daily.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Monday through Thursday

  • AM Session: 8:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

  • PM Session: 12:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Students currently enrolled may remain in the program each year as long as they continue to meet age eligibility requirements.

Transportation:
Families are responsible for arranging transportation for their child.

Tuition for Typically Developing Preschoolers:

  • $45 per week

  • One-time $65 registration fee

ENROLLEMENT REQUIREMENTS

  • Children must be 3 years old on or before August 1 of the enrollment year.

  • Children who are 5 years old on or before August 1 are not eligible.

  • If your child is eligible for kindergarten, they are not eligible to enroll or stay in the preschool program.

  • Children must be mostly toilet-trained.

Families must reside within the Carlisle Local School District at the time of registration and throughout the child’s enrollment. Open enrollment is not available.