Program Options and Income Guidelines

State Preschool 

• (2.8 yrs - 4-year-old) All students must be 3 years old by December 1st.  To start at the beginning of the school year.  Students who turn three after December 1st may start on their 3rd birthday or after.
• Income Eligibility   

State Preschool Half Day

• Monday through Friday for 3 hours. 
• The morning session is from 7:40 am - 10:40 am. 
• The afternoon session is from 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm.  

State Preschool Full Time

• Monday through Friday from 7:40 am - 2:10 pm.

Families enrolled through ECE Full Time programs must have a documented need for subsidized child care services (not applicable to part-day CSPP).

Families may receive services if all adults included in the family size meet one or more of the following need criteria: [Title 5, §18085.5(a)]
● Employment
● Seeking Employment
● Vocational Training
● Seeking Permanent Housing
● Incapacitation

The hours of authorized child care are approved based on the hours of documented need. Services are not authorized during the hours in which an adult included in the family size is available to supervise the children, the children are in an elementary school program, an elementary school program is available to the children, the children are enrolled in another subsidized program (Head Start/State Preschool), and/or the children are in the custody of a parent that is not part of the family size. [Title 5, §18085(b)] - If approved for the full-time hours, the hours of operation are Monday - Friday from 7:40 am - 2:10 pm, following the program calendar.

There could be family fees depending on the family's income.