PHILADELPHIA - The City of Philadelphia's Office of Children and Families and the School District of Philadelphia are encouraging families to enroll children aged 3 or 4 years old in the city's high-quality, free preschool options with seats still available at 350 locations across Philadelphia. PreK Enrollment is OPEN! Enroll in a PHLpreK - or any free, publicly funded high-quality preschool program for the 2025-26 school year - through https://freephillyprek.org beginning January 21st! Looking for Pre-k for this year? There are still seats left for the 2024-25 school year, and you can use the same application to apply. Your family will be able to locate a site near you and apply.
What are Philadelphia's pre-K options? The city and School District of Philadelphia provide free, high-quality, full. PHLpreK funds free, quality, pre-K at over 130 centers throughout Philadelphia. The Y is a participating partner of this program within the city! PHLpreK is available to 3 and 4-year-olds who reside in the City of Philadelphia.
You are likely eligible to enroll your child for PHLpreK year if: Your child has turned 3 or 4 by September 1. Philadelphia has available free Pre-K spots for the 2024-2025 school year, with a new digital platform to ease applications. PHLpreK offers free, quality pre-K to children ages 3-4 across Philadelphia.
This program is funded by the Philadelphia Beverage Tax proposed by Mayor Kenney and passed by City Council in 2016. Since 2017, PHLpreK has served over 17,000 children. PHLpreK is now offering 5,250 children free, quality pre-K during the 2024-2025 school year.
To achieve this, we partner with more than 220 early. PHLpreK provides locally funded quality pre-K programs for 3 and 4-year-olds. Funded by the Philadelphia Beverage Tax, PHLpreK provides free, quality pre-K opportunities to 3,300 children across the city.
The city's new universal pre-K application is supposed to streamline and simplify the complicated process of accessing Philly's free preschool options.