Georgetown Preschool

Georgetown Preschool at 1230 31st Street NW is an early childhood education center in Georgetown’s 31st Street residential neighborhood, providing the preschool program that the Georgetown family uses for the three- and four-year-old’s introduction to the formal school experience in the neighborhood setting. The Georgetown preschool serves the Georgetown residential community’s youngest members with the age-appropriate curriculum that introduces the academic readiness skills, the social development, and the structured classroom experience that the kindergarten preparation requires.

The Georgetown preschool environment reflects the educational philosophy that the Georgetown family typically brings to the early childhood education choice: the emphasis on the social development, the creative play, and the academic readiness skills in the appropriate developmental progression that the research on early childhood learning supports. The Georgetown preschool that provides the warm, stimulating, and appropriately challenging early education environment serves the Georgetown child’s developmental needs in the critical period of the age three to five when the neural plasticity that the brain science identifies as the foundation of later academic success is at its peak.

The 31st Street residential address at 1230 NW, near the Fifth Church of Christ Scientist and the Georgetown Preschool’s residential neighborhood setting, provides the school with the neighborhood character appropriate to the early childhood education setting: the child who walks from the adjacent residential blocks to the 31st Street preschool is using the neighborhood school in the most literal sense.

The Georgetown Preschool’s academic year runs Monday through Friday during the school year. Georgetown Preschool at 1230 31st Street NW provides the age-appropriate curriculum that supports the three- and four-year-old’s development across the social, the emotional, the physical, and the early academic domains that the preschool years are the critical period for establishing. The Georgetown preschool teacher who knows the individual child’s developmental stage, the specific learning style, and the particular interests can provide the differentiated instruction that the individual child’s development requires.

The Georgetown family that uses the Georgetown Preschool for the early childhood education values the neighborhood setting and the community of Georgetown families that the neighborhood preschool creates: the friendships between the Georgetown preschool families, which begin with the children’s classroom friendships and which develop into the adult friendships between the Georgetown parents, create the neighborhood social community that the Georgetown residential character sustains through the school years and beyond. The preschool academic year runs Monday through Friday. Georgetown Preschool at 1230 31st Street NW provides the Georgetown family with the early childhood education in the 31st Street residential neighborhood setting. The preschool’s academic year schedule runs Monday through Friday during the school year, with the pre-kindergarten program that the Georgetown three- and four-year-old uses for the structured early education experience in the neighborhood school setting.