PRE4CLE Preschools are recognized across the City of Cleveland as the best, highest quality options for preschoolers and their families. PRE4CLE Preschools include child care centers, family child care homes, Head Start programs, and Cleveland Metropolitan School District preschool classrooms.
More than 100 preschool programs have already committed to being part of PRE4CLE and serve nearly 5,000 children in high-quality preschool classrooms across the city.
PRE4CLE Preschools collaborate with PRE4CLE and each other to implement the goals of the PRE4CLE Plan, serve as an advisory board, and receive support to enhance their programs.
To be a PRE4CLE Preschool, your program must:
Be located in the City of Cleveland
Be rated 3, 4, or 5 stars in Step Up To Quality
Maintain a teacher-to-student ratio of 1:10 with a maximum class size of 20 children
Employ teachers, assistant teachers, and site administrators who meet PRE4CLE’s education and training requirements
Agree to share data with PRE4CLE
Interested in becoming a PRE4CLE Preschool?
Please note, we review applications every six months.
PRE4CLE Preschools meet high-quality standards and are located throughout Cleveland.
Click on the neighborhoods below to view the PRE4CLE Preschools located in each.
Artemus Ward
Little Critters Early Learning Center
AB Hart
Clever Bee Academy – Broadway
Mound Elementary School
Villa Head Start Center
Warner Girls Leadership Academy
Corinna Bryant
Denison
Develop & Enhance the Mind Enrichment Center
Fundamentals Early Childhood Development Academy
Harvey Rice Elementary School
Little Village Home Child Care
Sunbeam
Bingham Early Learning Center
Day Care for Future Scholars
Dike School of the Arts
Friendly Inn Settlement Inc.
George Washington Carver
King Kennedy Head Start
Marion-Sterling Elementary School
William Patrick Day Early Learning Center
YWCA Metro Early Learning Center
Market Square Horizon Education Center
Walton School
East Clark
Hannah Gibbons-Nottingham
Intergenerational Day Care
Kenneth W. Clement
Marion C. Seltzer Elementary School
Willard Head Start
Gordon Square Early Learning Center
Horizon Education Centers- Shoreway
Jireh Learning Center
Joseph M. Gallagher School
St. Augustine Manor Child Enrichment Center
Waverly Elementary School
Cleveland Fed Kids Inc.
Developing Character LLC
Carl B. Stokes Early Learning Center
Euclid Park Elementary School
Bolton
Quincy Place Early Learning Center
St. Adelbert
Apples of Gold Child Care II
Clever Bee Academy – St. Clair
Ever Changing Educational Center
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mary M. Bethune
Murtis Taylor @ Kathryn R. Tyler Center
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Wade Early Learning Center
Daniel E. Morgan School
Lexington-Bell Early Childhood Services
Mary B. Martin School
Wade Park
Garfield Elementary School
Willson School
Wilson’s Home Daycare
Care-A-Lot Day Care & Achievement Center LLC
Clara E. Westropp School
Douglas MacArthur
Newton D. Baker School
Riverside School
Triskett Station Horizon Education Center
Valley View Elementary School
West Park Discovery World Inc
Anton Grdina
Rainbow Terrace Head Start
Adlai Stevenson School
Louis Stokes Head Start Center
Mary Church Terrell School
Whitney M. Young School
Andrew J. Rickoff
Clever Bee Academy – Kinsman
Murtis Taylor Child Enrichment Center
A Jubilee Academy
Memorial School
Salvation Army Cleveland Temple Corps
Orchard School
Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School
The Music Settlement-Ohio City
Urban Community School
Benjamin Franklin
Charles A. Mooney School
Loving Cup Kids Academy of Old Brooklyn
Old Brooklyn Horizon Education Center
William Cullen Bryant
William Rainey Harper
Brown’s Children’s Paradise
St. Philip Neri Head Start
Clark School
Clever Bee Academy – Ridge
Natividad Pagan International Newcomers Academy
Horizon Learning Center
Luis Munoz Marin School
Merrick House
Scranton School
Tremont Montessori School
Chapelside Academy
Charles Dickens School
Miles School
Nathan Hale School
Robert H. Jamison School
The Music Settlement-University Circle
Almira
Halle
Milagros Cruz
St. Ignatius Head Start
Wilbur Wright School