Alpine Country Day School

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About

Alpine Country Day School in Alpine has operated on a 2.5-acre campus at 1508 Midway Drive since 1982, holding Community Care License #376600139 with a capacity of 70 children across its infant center and preschool programs. The infant-and-toddler center enrolls children from six weeks through age two in a separate wing with lowered caregiver ratios, and the preschool serves ages two through six with structured pre-kindergarten readiness alongside daycare and enrichment tracks — a developmental pipeline that connects to the well-child checkups families schedule with providers like Karen Hanten, MD on Alpine Blvd. Three program directors have each contributed more than twenty years of tenure to the school's operational continuity, maintaining curriculum consistency across enrollment cohorts. A third licensed facility, Alpine Country Care Club, operates from the Shadow Hills Elementary School campus on Harbison Canyon Road, providing before-and-after-school care and full-time summer programming for school-age children up to twelve. The after-school enrichment model at the Harbison Canyon site dovetails with the martial-arts programming that families access through East County studios like Alpine Jiu-Jitsu on Tavern Road, where children age five and up train in discipline-building grappling fundamentals. Pre-kindergarten readiness modules cover letter recognition, number sequencing, fine-motor pencil grip, and social-group dynamics to align graduates with California Transitional Kindergarten entry standards.