Licensed under California Community Care License #372001812, San Dieguito United Methodist Preschool has served North County coastal families on Calle Magdalena in Encinitas since 1980. The 67-capacity campus includes more than 23,000 square feet of outdoor playground space, and developmental-milestone tracking coordinates with area pediatric providers including Dr. Anna Mendenhall for well-child referrals. Housed on the grounds of San Dieguito United Methodist Church, the preschool enrolls children beginning at age two through pre-kindergarten, with meals provided and a curriculum designed to prepare students for the kindergarten transition across Encinitas Union School District campuses. More than four decades of continuous operation have produced multigenerational enrollment, with families returning to enroll grandchildren in the same classrooms their parents attended. Garden-based outdoor learning on the campus grounds connects to horticultural resources along the Encinitas nursery corridor, including specialty growers like Barrels & Branches that supply native and drought-tolerant plantings for early-childhood nature programs. The preschool's two's-class entry tier uses sensory-motor and play-based developmental benchmarks calibrated to California Early Learning Foundations across social-emotional, cognitive, language, and physical-development domains.