Our Community
As a cooperative preschool, all are involved in the operation and success of the school.
This really is your preschool, so it may feel like a lot of work but without everyone's participation it wouldn't be such a great place.- Former King Street Parent
Family Expectations
There are four areas of family work contribution to the school: classroom, family job, cleaning, and fundraising:
- Classroom: Each child's family is responsible to have one adult who works in the classroom about 1/3 of the time that the child is there per month. For example, a child who is enrolled for two days a week has a family member who works in the classroom once for approximately every three times she/he attends, about twice a month.
- Family Job: Some examples include serving as a board member, tour guide, maintenance provider, supplies coordinator, photographer, fundraising team member, or teacher assistant.
- Cleaning: Each family is expected to help clean the preschool. A family with one child cleans twice a year for 3 hours each time; a family with 2 children enrolled cleans three times a year for 3 hours each time. You can opt to pay $75 each time to have someone else do this job for you.
- Fundraising: King Street Cooperative Preschool is an autonomous nonprofit school. We do not receive any public funds nor any grants currently. To keep tuition low, each family is asked to participate in our fundraising program. Participation includes procuring items for the spring auction, selling raffle tickets, selling goods for our fall fundraiser, as well as providing contacts for our annual giving letter.
All of these family contributions help keep our tuition costs low and build our sense of community. A few other required events are the orientation and set up day at the beginning of the year and the pack up day at the end of the year.
Parent Meetings
King Street Co-op holds monthly parent meetings to discuss classroom issues, parenting topics, administrative business, and other co-op needs. These meetings are key to the smooth operation and success of our school; participation by all families is required. Beginning in October, meetings are held once a month on a Wednesday night from 7 to 9 pm.
Board Meetings
Additionally, the governing board of KSCP meets monthly to conduct school business. Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month. These meetings are open to all co-op members but are not required. Board meeting minutes are published and distributed via our Google group to co-op members the week following.
Community Events
Throughout the year, King Street Coop Preschool has community-building events including but not limited to, a welcome picnic, a welcome playdate open house, a winter potluck, a March auction and party, an annual camp trip and park play dates throughout the summer.
At King Street I've learned that you can decide who your friends are, but you have to be gentle with everyone.- 3rd year King Street student, age 5
Parent resources
- Handbook 2023/2024 School Year Handbook.
- Calendar 2023/2024 School Year Calendar.
- Newsletter Archive Read through our newsletter archive from 2010 to 2016, containing helpful resrouces and information.
- Anti Bias Book List Our library is filled with a wide assortment of wonderful books, but we have a particularly well-stocked selection of titles that support the goals of anti-bias education for young children.
- Parent Book Recommendations Most of these books are available for check out in our parent resource library
- King Street Book Recommendations Browse and buy the books we are reading in class and get recommendations of books that our families currently love to read! A portion of all sales through Bookshop benefits King Street!