{"id":21,"date":"2021-08-19T00:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:56:15","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>St. James Preschool has been continuously owned and operated by St. James Episcopal Church since 1965. Over the years, our program has grown and expanded to meet the ever-changing needs of today\u2019s preschoolers in the Downingtown, as well as, Chester Springs, Coatesville, Exton and West Chester areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. James Preschool is non-denominational and accepts children of all backgrounds. Though we are operated by St. James Episcopal Church, our curriculum does not include religious education. We do, however, offer a prayer of thanksgiving at snack time, and we attend chapel 2 times per month in the church with Father Richard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a warm, mature staff consisting of six teachers and six assistants. Our teachers are certified or have over fifteen years of teaching experience. Our private classrooms are well- supervised with a teacher and an assistant in each class. This allows the right teacher-to-student ratio which affords each child individual attention. Our staff is easily accessible and available to address any parent questions or concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our preschool program consists of Young Threes, Threes\/Fours,&nbsp; and Pre-K classes. We offer morning sessions two, three or five mornings a week. We offer afternoon sessions three days a week for our Threes\/Fours and Pre-K classes.&nbsp; Our school calendar runs from September to May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are happy to give tours of our Preschool. Please call to set up an appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. James Preschool has been continuously owned and operated by St. James Episcopal Church since 1965. Over the years, our program has grown and expanded to meet the ever-changing needs of today\u2019s preschoolers in the Downingtown, as well as, Chester Springs, Coatesville, Exton and West Chester areas. St. James Preschool is non-denominational and accepts children &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamespreschool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}