Preschool

Our Program Features

• Nine months of two, three or five half-days of preschool.
• An integrated classroom experience with ECSE (Early Childhood Special Education).
• Both social and academic learning experiences two years before kindergarten.
• Sliding fee scales, based on family income with nine monthly payments.

2025-2026 EC Information Packet

Downloadable 2025-2026 Preschool Pricing.pdf

Register for CURRENT families

Preschool Scholarship Application 2024–2025

Preschool Scholarship Application 2024–2025

Preschool Tuition - Monthly Automatic Payment Form

Preschool Information 

View2024-2025 Parent Handbook for Parent / Child Classes

2025-2026 Early Childhood Information Packet

Kids Club is a safe, structured, school-age child care program for preschoolers through fifth-graders at Rice Elementary and Hillside Early Childhood Center. The program is sponsored by Sauk Rapids-Rice Community Education. Your child will grow, spend time with friends and experience unique opportunities that promote exploration and creativity. Students participate in a variety of activities that incorporate language arts, science, math, technology, arts, social-emotional learning, fine and gross motor skill use, physical activity. Kids Club helps students learn about themselves and the world around them in a safe, structured and inclusive environment. We hope your student will join us!

Use the registration links above to add this option to your Preschool registration.

2024-2025 Preschool Kids Club Handbook

We value and prioritize providing the best learning environment for your child. It's important that your child's growth and development during early childhood is started to right way. Our teachers have a four-year degree, minimum in early childhood. We provide curriculum that is age appropriate and tracks the children's progress.

To ensure every child is receiving what they need, we have individualized instruction respecting different learning styles and abilities. We offer support services like speech to provide each child help where it is needed.

We encourage parent involvement and offer frequent communication through newsletters and conferences. Our open atmosphere invites parents to visit and observe their child's journey. We also have licensed parent educators for parents with a minimum four-year degree. 

• Sauk Rapids-Rice Early Childhood Programs is a 4-Star Parent Aware rated program. Four stars is the highest ranking a program can receive.
• Sauk Rapids-Rice Early Childhood Programs has been designated an “exemplary program” by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, D.C. The only early childhood program in Minnesota to receive this award, Sauk Rapids-Rice is one of 21 programs throughout the nation that was honored by this distinction.
• Our school readiness preschool classes are integrated with early childhood special education. Typically developing children have the opportunity to be part of classes including children with a variety of abilities.
• ECFE classes are offered to meet the needs of busy young families.
• Curriculum is based on developmentally appropriate practices for children and Minnesota state standards for early childhood. Parent education curriculum is individualized for each parent group.
• Funding comes from state aid and a local levy. Tuition fees and additional funding from a variety of grants and collaborations maintain the program.

Kids Club

Located at Rice Elementary for Preschool to fifth grade students and for Preschool students at Hillside Early Childhood Center. 

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Summer Adventure Camp 2025

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Rice Elementary | 200 NE 3rd Avenue, Rice, MN 56367

Map and Driving Directions 

Preschool–Grade 5
Hours: 6:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
OPEN: June 3–August 22 
CLOSED: June 19, July 3–4; August 25–29

Hillside School | 30 South 4th Avenue, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379
(Enter Door 6 in North parking lot)

Map and Driving Directions 

Preschool–Kindergarten
Hours: 6:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
OPEN: June 3–August 22 
CLOSED: June 19, July 3–4; August 25–29

Registration: Your child must be registered prior to their first date of attendance.

Register online

Fee: $32.00 per day and $20.00 registration fee*

What To Bring: Appropriate clothes for the weather, reusable water bottle, extra snacks, LUNCH, tennis shoes, spare outfit, sunscreen, bug repellant, swim gear if needed.

Summer Adventure Camp Family Handbook

Contact Info:
Amy Dierks
School-Age Child Care Coordinator
amy.dierks@isd47.org
Office phone: 320-258-1112    
Rice Site Phone: 320-267-7768