Binkley Preschool

Binkley Preschool
1712 Willow Drive
Chapel Hill NC 27514
919-968-1427

Age range: 2–4 years

Tuition: 2 days/week: $167/month; 3 days/week: $228/month; 5 days/week: $354/month

Scholarships available: Yes

Accreditation: Binkley Preschool has elected to voluntarily relinquish our accredited status with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). NAEYC has implemented new criteria that we feel will impede, rather than progress, our educational mission. Binkley Preschool will continue to self-study and implement the 1998 standards under which we were accredited.

Application deadline: We accept applications year round. The initial deadline for the following year is January 31

Application fee: $35, non-refundable

School starts: Day after Labor Day

School runs: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.; Lunch bunch extended hours until 1:00 p.m., available to potty-trained students in 3- and 4-year-old classes, by lottery.

Class size: 2-year-olds, 10 children; 3-year-olds, 14 children; 4-year-olds, 16 children

Student:teacher ratio: 2-year-olds, 5:1; 3-year-olds, 7:1; 4-year-olds, 8:1

Boy/girl quota: Healthy balance

How toilet-trained do children need to be? 2’s: Are not required to be potty trained.
3’s: We ask that families be working towards potty training
4’s: We expect that the children in our 4’s classes are potty trained.

Parental participation required: Parental involvement encouraged but not required

Special features:
• Well-rounded program established in 1965
• 4-year-old classes offer PE once-a-week with PE teacher, music each week with a music teacher and a drama workshop weekly.
• 2’s and 3’s offer an introduction to drama and movement and have music every other week with a music teacher.
• All classes enjoy large, natural playgrounds and light filled rooms.
• Binkley sponsors school wide community service projects each year.
• Binkley Preschool has a convenient location with ample parking and is on local bus routes

Web address: www.binkleypreschool.org

 

 

Updated January 2014