2024-25 Admissions Process
1. Sign up for an in person tour of the school here. You can also contact the director at jaya@greatlittleschool.com for any questions about tours or about the school or summer programs.
2. Apply. Submit the online application, using venmo or zelle to pay the application fee. OR: Download, print, and fill out a paper application. You can also complete and mail with a $55 application fee to:
Broadway Presbyterian Church Nursery School Admissions
601 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10025
3. If applying for financial aid, please visit smartaidforparents.com, fill out the application and submit supporting documents. The school code is 15022. Please note that we are not able to offer tuition assistance for our Toddler Playgroups. Our Tuition Assistance Fund is supported in part by West Harlem Development Corporation
4. We follow the ISAAGNY admissions notification dates. This means applications for fall 2024 can be submitted starting August 1, 2023.
Annual Tuition & Fees for 2024-25
Please note that tuition typically increases annually by a small percentage.
TODDLER PLAYGROUP
- SUPPORTED PLAYGROUP T/TH 9:30-11 – please email the Director at jaya@greatlittleschool.com for more information on dates and costs.
- Our Toddler Playgroup is a non-separation program held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-11am where toddlers get the chance to experience a gentle introduction to school. An experienced teacher provides developmentally appropriate materials and a simple structure, including art, movement, and music activities.
We hold three 10-week sessions in the fall, winter, or spring. Each 10 week session is $2,300 (we do not offer financial assistance for the playgroup).
TWOS
- MORNING SESSION (9-12) – $18,150
- EXTENDED SESSION (9-2:30) – $23,500
- FULL DAY (9-5:30) – $29,300
- Our 2’s program is focused on gently helping children adjust to a school setting and fostering a love of learning and exploration. Teachers support 2 year olds through hands-on sensory experiences, social emotional learning, and dramatic play themes. The 2’s also engage in simple versions of “projects.” Projects are ongoing studies on subjects of interest to the children in the class and are part of a whole child approach to teaching. Projects the 2’s group has explored in the past include wheels, subways, toothbrushes, and babies. Engaging in a curriculum centered around a subject children love helps to set the foundation for a lifetime of learning.
THREES and FOURS
- MORNING SESSION (9-12) – $17,325
- EXTENDED SESSION (9-2:30) – $22,600
- FULL DAY (9-5:30) – $27,300
- Our 3’s and 4’s program is centered around community building, meaningful inquiry, and more in depth projects. In this mixed age classroom, children are able to learn from each other, guide one another, and engage in complex play. Teachers support each age group, providing certain individualized times for 3’s and 4’s, and also bringing the age groups together to collaborate. Children continue to be introduced to hands-on materials and experiential learning. Children moving to Kindergarten are prepared through a curriculum that includes literacy, numeracy, science, and social studies taught through a developmentally appropriate lens.
Early Drop Off (8 or 8:30) $20 per hour per diem
Full Year Early Drop Off:
8:00am: $3,300
8:30am: $1,650
Community Fund – $400
Quick Facts
- Children are admitted for separation classes once they have turned two.
- We strive to have enrollment that reflects the diversity of the community.
- Children of families affiliated in any way with the Nursery School or the Church are given priority.
- The program is play-based.
- Children engage in active play every day, either with a trip outside to a nearby playground, in the climber room or in the gym.
- Our program includes music, art, drama, cooking and science.
- Children bring their own healthy snacks from home.
- Children in Extended or Full Day sessions bring their own healthy lunches from home.
- Children in Extended or Full Day sessions have a short rest or nap period.
- Our teachers are advocates of progressive education, providing a range of structured and open-ended experiences, based on assessment of individual children’s development and readiness.
- Children are required to be up to date on vaccinations to attend. A schedule of vaccinations required to attend school can be found here.
- BPCNS graduates in the last 5 years have attended Alexander Robertson, Allen-Stevenson, Ascension, Bank Street, Brearley, Browning, Calhoun, Cathedral, Chapin, City and Country, Collegiate, Columbia Grammar, Fieldston, Hunter, LREI, Manhattan Country School, Metropolitan Montessori, Nightingale-Bamford, St. Bernard’s, The School at Columbia, The Special Music School, Spence, Speyer Legacy, St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s, Trevor Day, UNIS; and have attended District 3 G&T and Districts 4, 5 and 6 Dual Language programs, Anderson, CPE 1, CPE 2, Dos Puentes, Hamilton Heights School, Juan Bosch, Manhattan School for Children, Muscota New School, PS 9, PS 75, PS 84, PS 125, PS 163, PS 165, PS 166, PS 180, PS 187, PS 191, PS 452, Success Academies, TAG, WHEELS, and WHIN.
- Parents are expected to participate in support of the school.
Classes for Toddlers
As an introduction to school, we are pleased to offer a supported playgroup, two mornings a week, led by an experienced teacher. This is a non-separation class, a first venture into structured play with others, developing youngsters’ social and language skills. The playgroup will be offered in 10-week sessions, in the fall, winter, and spring.
Toddler Classes FAQs
- How do you handle separation? In our supported playgroup, an adult is present as a secure base for the child, staying primarily in the role of observer while the teacher works with the children. This allows the child the opportunity to separate briefly from their adult, and to forge relationships with the teacher and the other children.
- What is the schedule? Our supported playgroups meet twice a week from 9:30 to 11:00 for play, socialization, snack, and singing and dancing.
- Does my child need to be toilet trained? No. There is a bathroom with a changing station available on the first floor for parents/caregivers to change a child in need of a diaper change.
Read more about our program here.
For further information please contact the Director.