Education and Child Care

The Boston Public Schools serves nearly 56,000 pre-kindergarten through grade 12 students in 143 schools throughout the city of Boston, and in 2006 won the Broad Prize for Urban Education as the top city school district in the country.

A resource and referral agency that can connect you, free of charge, to all types of early education and care for your children, including family child care, center based, school age /after school, and camp programs CCCB can also help with information about financial assistance special needs concerns, child care transportation, parent training opportunities, and on-line food stamp applications.

To provide day care services for pre-school age children as well as training for community residents to become early childhood teachers. We provide quality day care services for children of parents either working, in school, or training program. We have a warm, safe, relaxed environment. We promote the development needs of children: social, emotional, physical, and cognitive.

To provide a safe, nurturing, educational program for children ages 3 months-6years. We strive to meet the needs of each diverse learner and build a home-school partnership.

To provide children and youth with the strongest developmental foundation to inspire a lifelong excitement for learning and the skills to become caring and responsible citizens.

Provides access to readiness activities and opportunities, support for the transition into kindergarten, and information and workshops to help navigate the registration process for the Boston Public Schools.

Early Head Start serves low-income pregnant women, infants and toddlers ages birth to three years, providing children with care and stimulation proven to aid brain development in the earliest years. Head Start provides early care and education for low-income children ages 3 to 5.

To educate and nurture young children. To help them develop socail, emotional, cognitive and physical skills. To nurture and support parents on their great parenting role.

Pairs motivated college students with preschool children in caring and supportive one-to-one relationships for an entire school year to build literacy, language, and social skills.

General information about pregnancy, development, childcare, healthy eating. 

Free parent-child playgroups sponsored by Countdown to Kindergarten for Boston residents and their children ages 1 to 3. 

To make early literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric primary care, so that children grow up with books and a love of reading.