St. Mary’s Early Childhood Center’s mission Statement is based on the premise that the children we serve are inherently competent, capable, and strong. St Mary’s Early Childhood Center:
- Integrates highly effective professional educators with a proven learning philosophy.
- Uses qualitative measures to show impact.
- Impacts preschool children in poverty — who are at life and learning risk — with the highest quality cognitive, creative, social, physical, and emotional learning experiences that will transition into a foundation for lifelong success.
- Is accountable to the children and families served, stakeholders and contributors, and the early childhood learning community.
- Integrates highly effective professional educators with a proven learning philosophy.
- Uses qualitative measures to show impact.
- Impacts preschool children in poverty — who are at life and learning risk — with the highest quality cognitive, creative, social, physical, and emotional learning experiences that will transition into a foundation for lifelong success.
- Is accountable to the children and families served, stakeholders and contributors, and the early childhood learning community.



Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
Learn How You Can Help
Children are able to attend the high quality preschool program for as little as $10 per week. Scholarships are also available for educators working with children living in poverty and/or dealing with adversity. Through generous community support, the life changing impact is being made. We invite you to join us!
We have been exploring homes of insects. We read the book “Grub” and drew some insects. We then explored outside and looked for worms and grubs in the dirt. [...]
We have been using various toys like Mr. Potato Head to name parts of the body. Today we used our portraits to create our faces and some open-ended art materials [...]
This week, we took a field trip to the new library at Fort Harrison. The kiddos explored the library and had lots of fun! [...]