Garden School’s Early Childhood Program in Jackson Heights, Queens provides a warm, engaging introduction to school for children beginning at age 2. With Nursery, Pre-K, and Kindergarten programs, Garden combines small class sizes, hands-on learning, and individualized attention to help young learners build confidence, curiosity, and a strong foundation for future learning.

Small Classes, Hands-On Learning
Young children thrive when they are known and actively engaged. Garden’s small class sizes and small-group learning allow teachers to understand each child’s strengths, interests, and areas for growth while providing meaningful individual attention.

Learning extends beyond the traditional classroom experience. Through purposeful play, hands-on exploration, early literacy and mathematics, science, art, music, movement, and collaborative activities, students are encouraged to ask questions, experiment, create, and discover. These experiences build early academic skills while supporting independence, communication, problem-solving, and social-emotional development.

Language Learning Beginning in Nursery
Language learning begins as early as Nursery, when students are introduced to Mandarin through engaging, age-appropriate experiences. Exposure continues through Pre-K, Kindergarten, and beyond, allowing students to build familiarity and confidence with language over time.

Through songs, conversation, activities, and interactive instruction, students develop an early appreciation for language and cultures beyond their own while benefiting from consistent exposure throughout their educational journey.

A School to Grow With
What truly distinguishes Garden is that families are not simply choosing a preschool. Garden School is a Nursery through Grade 12 independent school, giving children the opportunity to begin at age 2 and grow within the same close-knit school community through high school graduation.

This continuity allows teachers and school leaders to truly know students as they grow. Children can move from their earliest classroom experiences into elementary school, middle school, and high school surrounded by a community where relationships matter and every student is known.

For families searching for a preschool in Queens, preschool starting at age 2, or an independent school in Jackson Heights offering small classes, hands-on learning, early language exposure, and a complete Nursery–12 educational pathway, Garden offers something unique.

At Garden, students can be known and supported from their first steps into the classroom to their walk across the graduation stage in 12th grade.

Garden School
33-16 79th Street
Jackson Heights, NY 11372

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