Universal Preschool

The Lansing School District offers a tuition-free Preschool program designed to prepare children for kindergarten. Classes are offered Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday throughout the school year, at various locations throughout the Lansing School District.

To apply, the child must:

Be four-years-old on or before December 1st of the current school year.
Priority for all preschool slots is given to Lansing School District residents.

Application Process

Complete the preschool application through the Ingham Preschool website.
- Make sure you select "Lansing School District-Universal Preschool".
- In the comment box, please indicate the school older siblings attend, if applicable.
Submit all required documents:
- Submit and upload all required documents on the Preschool Enrollment Form.
  - Enter your full name and email address, and click "Go to form".
Complete the Transportation Application 26/27 to request transportation options for your student.

Traditional Classrooms

Great Start Readiness classes utilize certified teachers and an assistant in each classroom. Classrooms have a teacher/student ratio of 1 to 8. They guide children in the basic social and academic skills needed for kindergarten.

Children learn through play. Play is the primary vehicle for a child’s development in the social/emotional, intellectual, language and literacy, creative, physical and health areas of development. Each day children will have opportunities to play and learn.

Activities focus on small and large motor development, music and movement, language and literacy including pre-reading skills as well as ongoing improvement in self-help and social skills.

Teachers will work with children at each child’s own pace. Teachers use strategies in small and large group settings. Teachers take into account the interests of the children and guide them in their play. Teachers develop activities to further the learning and take advantage of teachable moments whenever possible.

Second Language Immersion Programs

Chinese Immersion

This Bilingual/Bicultural Pre-K Program, in partnership with the Great Start Readiness Program & The US-China Center at Michigan State University, is offered at Post Oak Elementary.

Children are born with the ability to speak any language. The early years are the best time to present another language to a child. During the early years they begin to lose the language receptors they don’t need. It is during this time that children’s language receptors are still intact and they can be most successful at learning another language.

At Post Oak there are two full day classrooms available with an 1 to 8 teacher/student ratio. The children will spend half the day in the traditional western culture English speaking classroom, the other half in a Chinese Immersion language and culture classroom. They will learn letters, words, songs, dances, writing and drawing to name a few in both languages and classes. Children will become educated for global citizenship and more prepared for the world that awaits them.