That depends on the class.

For Parent Observation your child must be 2 years by September 1st to enroll.

For Mixed-Age classes your child must be at least 2.5 years by September 1st to enroll.

You find information about tuition and fees here, where you can also read more about applying for scholarships.

PNS is a co-op and it is essential that every family participates both in teaching in the classroom as well as all other aspects of running a school.

Each week, parents with children in our Mixed-Age classes and Pre-K class has a teaching day in the classroom. These are planned and supervised by our teachers/directors.

We also have additional job responsibilities, which we you can read more about under Membership.

No. Children do not have to be potty-trained prior to enrollment.

Depending on availability and spaces in the other classes, we do offer extra days at an extra cost.

Children in mixed age can get up to two extra days. Children in Pre-K can get one extra day.

Please contact our registrar to learn more about adding extra days.

We are holding all of our classes outside in our expansive yards, we are washing our hands often and sanitizing surfaces.

Masks: Children and adults are required to wear masks, and we currently ask our community to use either a N95, KN95, KF94, or double mask with a surgical + cloth mask for maximum protection from the Omicron variant.

Safety at snack time: Snack is served on individual plates rather than "family style", and the tables and seating are spaced out during snack time.

Vaccination and testing: Adults are required to be fully vaccinated or provide a negative test result on their teaching day, however, we have entered 2022 with a 100% vaccination rate. We follow the Santa Clara Public Health guidelines for situations such as close contacts, testing and isolation requirements, international travel, etc.

Read more about how we've adjusted our school to be safe during COVID-19.

If you cannot work on your teaching day, you must arrange a substitute by trading teaching days with another parent. We do this by reaching out to the other parents in our group through our internal communication app.

It is important for you to find a replacement because your absence decreases the teacher/child ratio in your class and because each parent is vital to the effectiveness of the program. Occasional tidy up and organizing days will be assigned.

Yes, children are provided a healthy and tasty snack at 10:45.

All snacks are served and eaten “family style” to create a social environment which encourages children to taste everything and to encourage independent eating skills. Children are invited to “pass the fruit, please,” help themselves to seconds, and to pour their own milk.

We will make every effort to work with you and your child to accommodate special dietary needs. If allergies or food restrictions are severe, we may ask you to provide supplemental food items.

COVID-19 UPDATE: As a safety precaution, snack is served on individual plates, and children are free to choose what, and how much they would like to eat, and encouraged to ask for seconds.

On a typical day, every class has two trained teachers plus at least four parent teachers.

We do require that either a parent or grandparent be the one to do the weekly teaching day. You put the "parents" in Parents Nursery School!

Nannies and au pairs are welcome to drop off and pick up children on the other two or three days they attend school.