HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda 02-25-20 Attachment 7 - CHCCS Executive Summary Pre-Kindergarten Programming LHI
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Pre-Kindergarten Programming
The mission of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) Pre-K/Head Start
Program, in partnership with families and the community, is to provide high quality,
developmentally appropriate early childhood education, which will meet the diverse
needs of all children and prepare them for a positive educational experience. The
district currently serves over 260 students in traditional, blended and adaptive pre-
kindergarten classrooms. Younger students being served under the Exceptional
Children's program are eligible to enroll in pre-kindergarten classrooms as early as age
three.
The purpose of the CHCCS Pre-K/Head Start is to support students, families and the
Local Education Agency (LEA) in preparing students for success in education and in
life. Our program presents a heavy focus on social emotional learning along with play-
based pre-literacy and math skills. Many of our students come from low socioeconomic
backgrounds, have disabilities, or other factors that could impede learning. Given this
demographic, we serve to identify and build strengths to support learning for the whole
child.
Pre-K serves children age three to five years of age, not yet eligible for kindergarten,
in the areas of Education, Family Partnerships, Mental Health, Disabilities, Health,
Safety, Nutrition, and Dental Care.
Pre-K operates 180 school days from 8:00-2:30 and extended care is available (7:30-8
and 2:30-5:30). Pre-K is funded through Head Start, North Carolina state funded Pre-
K Program/Smart Start (NC Pre-K) and local tuition dollars.
Applications for Pre-K/Head Start programs are accepted on a year-round basis.
Children who are three or four years old by August 31 st are eligible to apply. Interested
families must complete an application and provide supporting documentation.
Applications are reviewed and screened and eligibility for Head Start, Smart
Start/NCPK, Exceptional Children's Program (EC), Subsidy or Tuition is determined
based on income and risk factors. Tuition and Subsidy placements are lottery-based.
Children who are not selected through the lottery process will be placed on a waiting
list. Head Start and Smart Start/NC Pre-K placements are need-based. If enrollment at
all sites is full, accepted applications will be placed on the waiting list. Once the
selection process is completed, families will be notified of their child's application
status. In efforts to reach families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, flyers are created and
distributed in 4 different languages: Karen, Burmese, Spanish, and English. Outreach
takes place through churches, shelters, apartment complexes, mobile home parks, and
supermarkets in efforts to reach diverse populations in the community.
The district pre-kindergarten program currently operates on an annual budget of
approximately $4 million dollars for 267 students. Funding sources are:
$1,300,000 from Head Start
$700,000 from NC-PK
$500,000 from Local Tuition Students
$1,500,000 from Local Funds for EC Support
The district estimates that a Universal Pre-K program would cost approximately ,$15
million dollars to serve approximately 750 students. This estimated cost does not
include additional capital funding that would be needed for additional classrooms to
serve 500 more students in a Universal Pre-K program.
The 267 students in Pre-K are from the following funding sources:
• 116 PK Federal Head Start
• 20 Smart Start/NC Pre-K
• 131 PK Paid
0 30-paid fully by parents
0 60-paid through Exceptional Children's Program
0 40+ paid through DSS childcare subsidies
Of the 20 PK classrooms in the district, 14 classrooms are housed inside an elementary
school building and six classrooms are housed in a mobile unit on an elementary school
campus. All classrooms have 5-star (highest) quality ratings from the NC Division of
Child Development. There are currently 4 students on the Head Start waiting list and
71 students on the tuition list for PK.
Kindergarten statistics:
• 2019-2020 Kindergarten enrollment 837 students
• 509 (61%) families indicated their children attended some type of
Pre-K
• 129 Pre-K students exited a CHCCS Pre-K at the end of the 2018-2019
school year.
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