No. Only licensed, trained teachers plan and teach all classes. Parent Helpers assist the teachers, are active participants in the class activities, and periodically perform other tasks and touch up cleaning (GPCP hires a professional cleaning service that thoroughly cleans and sanitizes weekly).

Yes. Your child’s class representative will work with you to develop a workable schedule. Parents often volunteer for extra helping days early in the year if they are expecting a new child or other major changes later in the year, serve only on a certain day of the week, or make other arrangements to satisfy necessary requirements. Parents often work together to exchange child care on their scheduled in-class days.

Yes. Parents, grandparents and other designated adult caregivers are eligible to carry out Parent Helper requirements. Your child’s class representative will work with you to find a workable arrangement.

A parent project is an extra-curricular job that each family takes on to help keep the Co-op running smoothly. Examples include organizing an event, cleaning toys, weeding or gardening the playground area, organizing t-shirt sales, participating as a board member and more. Some of the parent projects are simple, and some are more detailed. Your project(s) depends on what you prefer doing and what is available.

No. We are a private non-profit preschool open to everyone.

No. Although we rent space in the education building of a church, we are not affiliated with any religious group.

The 4/5s class is designed to meet the needs of both four- and five-year-olds (other schools sometimes call this a “pre-kindergarten” program). ​

​The GPCP is licensed by the State of Ohio, meaning that we meet all of the stringent health and safety codes maintained by the State of Ohio. Class curricula are aligned with the Ohio Department of Education’s Early Learning and Development Standards.

The Granville Parent Cooperative Preschool (GPCP) is in alliance with the COVID-19 Guidance for Operating Early Care and Education/Child Care Programs from the Center for Disease Control. The GPCP will continue to use layers of protection inside our classroom including but not limited to: industrial air purification, required covid-19 vaccination for all parent helpers (beginning Fall 2022), touch-free sink, professional weekly classroom cleaning, and continued increased cleaning protocols for parents helpers.

Universal indoor masking is optional at GPCP, regardless of vaccination status as long as Covid-19 Community Transmissions Levels are low-to-medium. However, we honor any participants decision to mask regardless.

We encourage you to call our school at (740) 587-0497 or contact the enrollment coordinator at enroll@granvillepreschool.org for more information.