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Early Learning Center information
Address: 372 Church St.
Phone: 845-451-4721
Principal: Colleen Hardiman, chardiman@poughkeepsieschools.org
Main office hours: 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
School hours: 8:20 a.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Enrollment: 465 (2019-2020)
Staff: 100
School nurse: 845-451-4720 ext. 3410
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PreK classes get new furniture
Early Learning Center students returned from Winter Break to new furniture in their classrooms, making the spaces a more comfortable environment for learning.
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Before school program preps ELC students for success
A new before-school program launches Feb. 7 at the Early Learning Center to help the district’s youngest learners develop solid academic and social foundations for school success.
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Orientation lays out expectations, provides resources
The Early Learning Center practices the 3 Bees: Be kind, be safe and be responsible. That is the first thing Principal Colleen Hardiman addressed in her orientation for new students and parents. During th
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ELC Releases Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten Supply List
The Early Learning Center Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten Supply List has been released for classes taking place at Smith School. The items needed for the classroom include the following;
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District begins preK, kindergarten registration
Registration for Pre-Kindergarten and kindergarten in the 2021-22 school year has begun and there are limited preK spaces available
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Guest readers provide voices for ELC's Read Across America program
District staff and City of Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison helped make this year’s Read Across America at Early Learning Center special by reading virtually to students.
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Pick up authorization form available
In order to let someone else pick up your child from school, the Early Learning Center must have an authorization filled out and signed by the child's parent or guardian.
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Early Learning Center safety data sheets
Safety Data Sheets for chemicals used at Early Learning Center at Smith School.
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Get help learning the alphabet
Learn the alphabet in English and Spanish by viewing this slideshow.
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Catharine Street honors PHS senior at MLK Breakfast
For 31 years, Catharine Street Community Center has honored and recognized individuals making a difference in the community at its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast. This year was no exception as it honored seven individuals (three youth and four community members) for their contributions. Poughkeepsie High School’s Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon was one of the youth honorees.
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Lynch returns to lead PCSD business department
Louise Lynch returns to Poughkeepsie City School District as the leader of the department she worked for early in her career. Lynch worked in the business department as a junior accountant/deputy treasurer from 1995-98.
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Teachers, leaders receive trauma training
Trauma can have far-reaching impacts on children - including brain development and inhibiting their ability to learn and engage in the classroom. On Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, district staff participated in training from the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health and the Mid Hudson Regional Partnership Center to learn more about how to recognize, relate and respond to students experiencing trauma.
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District achieves one-to-one device status
After months of supply chain delays, the Poughkeepsie City School District, has achieved one of its 5 Year Strategic Plan performance objectives of becoming a school district that assigns an instructional learning device (Chromebook) to all students PK-12.
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Grants fund safety upgrades, second SRO
Two federal grants will provide an additional school resource officer and safety upgrades in district schools.
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Judge appoints superintendent to statewide commission on Justice for Children
Superintendent Dr. Eric Jay Rosser is now a member of the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children.
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QuestBridge awards PHS student full scholarship to MIT
PHS Senior Elijah Johnson is headed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) upon graduation on a full scholarship, thanks to a QuestBridge Match Scholarship. He is one of 1,674 recipients nationwide to be awarded.
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Task Force examines school pathways
As a part of the Poughkeepsie City School District’s five-year strategic plan to provide greater opportunities and access for district students to attain success in and out of school, district leadership held its first Pathways Transformation Initiative meeting.
