Grant Nursery School

As part of our mission to the community, we seek to serve and empower families by providing an early start program for preschool age children. Grant Community Nursery School is a nonprofit outreach that welcomes, at no cost, all children (ages 4-5, not yet in kindergarten). Class size is limited to 20 students.

Mission Statement
The mission of Grant Community Nursery School is to help children develop basic school readiness skills while encouraging them to build positive self-identity and self esteem through creative play, art, music and other activities to enhance learning in a safe, supportive, healthy, Christian environment.

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Program Beginnings
GCNS is located in Community Covenant Church (CCC), and began as a collaborative effort of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church of Edina and Community Covenant Church. Excluding the Head Teacher and Van Driver, all staff and other workers are volunteers.

The collaborative effort has been enjoyed by both parties for approximately thirty-nine years, making it one of the longest operating and quite possibly, the first joint-sponsored child care initiative in the Near-Northside Minneapolis area. The program focus, then and now, is to introduce children to school readiness skills in a safe, supportive, healthy environment.

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License
Grant Community Nursery School (GCNS) is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), St. Paul, Minnesota, (651) 296-3971. Our license capacity is twenty. A requirement of the Department of Human Services (DHS) Rule 9503 for Child Care Centers requires a review of our center’s health and safety policies yearly. This is done by the Metropolitan Visiting Nurse Association (MVNA), telephone number (612) 617-4600.