Early Childhood Learning Center

We are accepting enrollments now for the GATEWAYS for Youth & Families Learning Center.

Located conveniently between two elementary schools in the Summit-Waller area on 104th Street, the center is more than simply a daycare facility. At the Learning Center, creative play and arts activities are combined with basic education and social skills. Children, ages 30 months to pre-school, have fun all day long in a specially prepared space. At the LC, we engage the whole child.

They are having fun as they grow stronger, smarter and more skillful each day. Children learn how to listen, share, follow directions, sit quietly, run, jump, sing, dance, draw, paint, garden, play well with others and get ready for a lifetime of learning and success. The LC curriculum was developed by a licensed teacher with experience in directing after-school programs for elementary age children, with an emphasis on school readiness, creative arts and healthy living choices.

At the Ranch, the children enrolled in the Learning Center have a large fenced outdoor play yard reserved for their use, as well as an indoor recreation space and dance studio. Like all GATEWAYS Ranch programs, children will be introduced to the diversity of cultures that live in and around our community and have access to the benefits of our 30 acres of rural green space, with outdoor recreation areas, gardens and natural settings where they can play, learn and develop a relationship with the natural world and a respect for the people who live in it.

In addition to the full day ELC curriculum, we have before and after school care and programs for elementary age children.

Our programs are affordable for moderate income families and we offer sliding scale fees and accept DSHS payments.