Lindgren Early Learning Center, located on U.S.
Highway 63, five miles south of Ellsworth, serves students in three
pre-kindergarten programs: The Ellsworth Community School District Early
Childhood Program, the Ellsworth Four-Year-Old Kindergarten Program called
Panther Pre-School, and the CESA #11 Head Start Program.
Early Childhood is a program
that serves children ages 3-5 years old who have exceptional educational needs.
These needs range from speech language delays, visual impairment, developmental
delays, hearing impairment, emotional disturbance, physical disability, autism,
and health impairments. The Early Childhood Program serves children and families
living within the Ellsworth Community School District.
The four year old kindergarten program,
Panther Pre-School, serves students located in the Hillcrest Elementary
School busing area in a morning program from 8:45 - 11:30 a.m. The afternoon
program from 12:30 - 3:15 p.m.
serves students located in the Prairie View Elementary School busing area. The
program meets five days a week unless otherwise noted on the 4K calendar.
Transportation is provided to and from the 4YK program by the Ellsworth
Community School District bus service. Students in the Hillcrest area will be
bused to Hillcrest with the morning elementary students. A shuttle will transfer
4YK students to Lindgren for the 8:45 a.m. program. Students will be bused home
or to Hillcrest area day care centers after the morning program.
Students in the Prairie View busing area will be picked up and taken to Lindgren
for the 12:30 program. They will be bused at 3:15 to Prairie View Elementary
School and will ride the elementary bus home.
Panther Kid's Clubs are open to children in the 4YK programs. The
Hillcrest PKC is open from 6:00 - 8:30 a.m. before school, and is accessible for
4YK students in the morning. The Prairie View PKC is open from 3:30 - 6:30 p.m.
after school, and is open to 4YK students during these hours. If you would like
to utilize either of these programs, please contact the PKC staff at the
appropriate site - Hillcrest at 715-273-3912 or Prairie View at 715-792-5285.
Cost for the Panther Kid's Club program is $3.00 per hour, with a minimum charge
of 1 hour, and charges every 1/4 hour after the first hour.
Panther Kid's Clubs are open to children K-5th grades from 6:00 - 8:30 a.m. and
3:30 - 6:30 p.m. each school day. On non-school days, the PKC clubs are open all
day, for a fee of $22/day.
Head Start is a national
program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive
development of children through the provision of educational, health,
nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families. Head
Start places a special focus on helping preschoolers develop the early reading
and math skills they need to be successful in school. The Lindgren Head Start
program serves children and families from Ellsworth and many neighboring
communities in Western Wisconsin.
The Ellsworth Community School District does not discriminate on the basis of
sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital
or parental status, sexual orientation, or physical, mental, emotional or
learning disability.
