📣 We are excited to announce that the Cochrane-Fountain City School District will expand its educational and play-based curriculum to offer five days a week to all three- and four-year-old children next school year. We owe this expansion to the success of our highly effective five-day-a-week spring pilot, thanks to the dedication and hard work of our 4K teachers Pam Prenot and Sarah Puetz, along with other staff members.
The 4K program for next year will continue to be available to all children who turn four by September 1, 2024, and reside within the C-FC school district or accepted through open enrollment. Families will only be charged for meals unless they apply for income reduction, based on the free-reduced guidelines provided by the state.
Our preschool program for next year will be available to all children who turn three by September 1, 2024, and reside within the C-FC school district at a rate of $25 a day, plus meals. Families can apply for tuition reduction, based on the free and reduced guidelines provided by the state.
The Cochrane-Fountain City School District has provided academic and social-emotional education to children aged three and four for several years. Since 2017, the district partnered with Western Dairyland Head Start in this effort. Unfortunately, Head Start will not continue in the district next year. We thank them for all the amazing work they did to support families and students at C-FC. We wish them all the best. Despite this change, the district remains committed to its priority of providing all three- and four-year-old children with a place to come to school five days a week to meet the needs expressed by families, prepare all students for future success in school and life, and bridge the gap between needs and resources for our families.
Numerous families attended the preschool open house and registered their child/children.
We kindly encourage all families who wish to be a part of either program to contact the district as soon as possible by calling 608-687-4391.
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