Is Discovery Schoolhouse a Day Care Center, Childcare Program, Preschool, Kindergarten, or a Nursery School?

Discovery Schoolhouse provides a warm, nurturing, supportive, educational, and enjoyable experience for children from 2 years - 9 months through kindergarten age, including some after school care for children seven through nine years old.  We are open from 7:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening January 1st through December 31st.  We do not follow a school-year calendar, and children enroll at any time.  We always have children enrolled for a variety of the available schedules, with some children attending “full time,” five days a week, 7:00 to 6:00, and other children attending only 3 days 8:30 - 3:00 (and often being picked up early).  Many parents send their children to Discovery Schoolhouse so that their children will have a positive social experience with other children, learn how to be friends, and learn about the world.  Many parents send their children to Discovery Schoolhouse primarily because they want their children to have a quality “preschool” or “nursery school” experience.  Other parents send their children to Discovery Schoolhouse primarily because they are in need of quality full-time “child care” or “day care” while they work.  Most parents send their children for a combination of these reasons. 

What is Discovery Schoolhouse, Inc.?

Discovery Schoolhouse, Inc. was opened in 1992 as a non-profit educational corporation by a group of parents and teachers to provide a high quality early childhood experience for young children.  The school itself is basically a “two room” schoolhouse, and accepts a maximum of 30 children at one time, so we will always be a small school.  The building has been used as a schoolhouse for many years.  Discovery Schoolhouse, Inc. is also the Lead Agency for the Milton Early Childhood Alliance (MECA) and administers the state’s Community Partnerships for Children grant for the community.