History
Celebrating 69 years of high quality early childhood education! Hill & Dale was established in the Pacific Palisades in 1950 as a private for profit preschool-kindergarten. In 1979, a group of parents envisioned a learning center for children and parents and transitioned Hill & Dale to a non-profit Family Learning Center. The Preschool was relocated in 1984 to the now Colorado Center. The Infant and Toddler Program was relocated in 1987 to the old Clover Park fire house.
Specialties
Hill & Dale is a non-profit early childhood education program devoted to nurturing the development of children and their families. We believe that human beings develop best in nurturing relationships. We are a play-based Center with educational environments that promote learning through active child inquiry and educator-child collaboration. Curriculum is developed from the children's interests. We strive to support parents as they gain skills, knowledge and experience during the evolution of their family. We are one of the very few Centers in Santa Monica with an on-site nutritionist that prepares snacks and meals fresh each day for the children and with the children, when they are developmentally able. All food is included in the tuition rates. Hill & Dale is a year around, full day program. This location houses our Infant Program and Toddler Programs. The Infant Program serves children from birth to 18 months and is open from 7:30am to 6:00pm. The Toddler Program serves children ages 18 months to 3 years and is open from 7:00am to 6:00pm. To receive an enrollment application into one of our programs, we ask families to join us for a tour or take our