Children's Atelier Center

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About

Children's Atelier Center is a nonprofit preschool operated by Quality Children's Services on Windsor Road in Encinitas's Cardiff-by-the-Sea district, holding California Community Care License #376700040 for its full-day program serving children ages three through six since 2004. The campus sits adjacent to Ada W. Harris Elementary School and Ada Harris Park, providing a built-in outdoor play and gross-motor environment that extends the Montessori and Reggio Emilia classroom work into nature-based exploration. A Spanish-English dual language immersion track runs alongside the standard curriculum, and an in-house culinary program prepares all meals and snacks on-site within a peanut-free and tree-nut-free kitchen environment. The center enrolls children with special needs alongside neurotypical peers in an inclusive classroom model, and performing-arts integration connects to the broader Encinitas enrichment ecosystem that includes programs at Performing Arts Workshop on the 101 corridor. Kindergarten-readiness assessment follows both state-issued benchmarks and the Reggio documentation approach, where educators compile individual learning portfolios tracking each child's progression across cognitive, social-emotional, and fine-motor developmental domains.