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EDUCATION work at home with their parents the rest of the time. Right now, however, the school isn’t fully a university model — while kids in grades 6-12 attend school on site three days a week, students in grades 3-6 go to school twice a week and younger students once a week. Starting next year, students in grades 3-6 will join the older students in attending school three days a week. In 2014, kindergartners also will get that opportunity. First grade will follow suit in 2015 and second grade in 2016. The changes came in response to request from parents at the lower levels, Chief Academic Officer Kathleen Mallory said. Mallory hopes it will attract more families
with young children to enroll their kinds in the lower grades. Heritage has more secondary students, Mallory said, because schoolwork becomes more complicated at that age, and kids are more interested in social interactions. Meanwhile, the Southwest Play School, a preschool that had been part of the community for more than 50 years, closed in May. The school was a parent co-op, where children only came to school a couple of days a week and two parent volunteers stayed in the classroom each time. Enrollment had been declining, and parents and staff said they think the concept of parent co-ops might be fading out because more families have two working parents.
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PRIVATE SCHOOLS Apple School 5155 S. Providence Road, (573) 449-7525 www.appleschoolmo.org Preschool; full-day kindergarten; beforeand after-school care available Children’s House Montessori of Columbia 915 Tiger Ave., (573) 443-2825 www.comomontessori.com Ages 2 through kindergarten Christian Chapel Academy 3300 S. Providence Road, (573) 874-2325 www.cca-columbia.com Preschool, kindergarten, through eighth grades Christian Fellowship School 4600 Christian Fellowship Road, (573) 445-8565 www.cfsknights.org Preschool, half-day kindergarten, ďŹ rst through 12th grades Columbia Community Montessori 808 King Ave., (573) 489-5380 www.columbiacommunitymontessori.org Ages 3 to 6; serves lower-income families, preference given to families in the First Ward Columbia Independent School 1801 N. Stadium Blvd., (573) 777-9250 www.cislions.org Pre-K through 12th grade Columbia Montessori School 3 Anderson Ave., (573) 449-5418 www.columbiamontessori.org 4 weeks through 6 years old Family Worship Center Academy 4925 E. Bonne Femme Church Road, (573) 441-1140, extension 206 www.fwcacademy.org Kindergarten through 12th grade Good Shepherd Lutheran School 2201 W. Rollins Road, (573) 445-5878 www.columbialutheran.org Kindergarten through eighth grade Heritage Academy 606 Ridgeway Ave., (573) 449-2252 www.heritageacademy.info University-model school for kindergarten through 12th grade The Islamic School 408 Locust St., (573) 442-1556 www.theiscm.org Preschool, full-day kindergarten, ďŹ rst through ďŹ fth grades
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College Park Christian Academy 1114 College Park Drive, (573) 445-6315, 445-3418 www.cpchristian.org Preschool through ninth grade Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School 817 Bernadette Drive, (573) 445-6516 www.ccsk8.org Full-day kindergarten, ďŹ rst through eighth grades Shalom Christian Academy 312 Ridgeway Ave., (573) 256-4824 www.shalomchristianacademy.com Primarily day care and preschool Stephens College Children’s School 1400 Windsor St., (573) 876-7260 www.stephens.edu/academics/programs/ education/sccs Half-day and full-day preschool, kindergarten through ďŹ fth grade, extended before- and after-school programs Tolton Catholic High School 3351 E. Gans Road, (573) 445-7700 www.frtoltonhs.com Grades 9-12 Victory Baptist Schools 9401 E. I-70 Drive N.E., (573) 886-7834 www.vbccolumbia.com Kindergarten through 12th grade Windsor Street Montessori School 1616 Windsor St., (573) 881-9767 www.comomontessori.com Pre-K through sixth grade SPECIAL NEEDS Robert G. Combs Language Preschool 124 Clark Hall, University of Missouri Contact: Greta Hull, preschool director, (573) 882-8538 or hullg@health.missouri. edu This Scottish Rite-sponsored languageintensive preschool program is designed for children 3 to 5 years old. Children with speech-language problems and those who are developing typically are eligible to participate. Graduate students and seniors in the MU School of Health Professions Department of Communication Science and Disorders serve as student clinicians in this small-group preschool under the direct supervision of the preschool director, a licensed, certiďŹ ed speechlanguage pathologist. Classes meet in the fall, spring and summer semesters from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday through Wednesday and Tuesday through Thursday.
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