About Us

The San Marcos Parent-Child workshop is a licensed, cooperative preschool and parent education class, instructed by the Continuing Education division of Santa Barbara Community College.

It is operated by parents under the supervision of an Instructor and the Assistant Director educated in Early Childhood Education and Parent Education. Students from each family participates actively one morning a week in the preschool setting. Students also attend a weekly Wednesday evening parent education class at the school, where a variety of parenting issues are discussed and speakers from the community share their expertise.

The school is located on the San Marcos High School campus within its own site. We interface with the high school early childhood education class where students spend one hour and forty five minutes daily at the preschool.

The purpose of the preschool is to introduce children between the ages of 2.5-5 years to a quality preschool experience, using developmentally appropriate practices. The nurturing, loving environment makes an ideal first school experience for your child and brings out the best in you as a parent.

San Marcos Parent Child Workshop opened on the San Marcos High School campus in 1959. We are proud of our long history spanning 52 years.