The pioneer full-day kindergarten schools are on track like Lewis & Clark.
Superintendent Dr. Steven Yanni announced at last week’s school board session that the six pioneer schools were announced as Cold Spring, Doyle, Groveland, Jamison, Kutz, and Mill Creek. He said the main criteria for a pioneer full-day kindergarten school was space and a location that could represent the district demographic and cover all attendance areas.
Registration opened on Nov. 11 for the 2025-26 kindergarteners, as well as new students in all grades, he said.
“We’re really excited to bring full-day kindergarten to Central Bucks next year,” Yanni said. “We’re not calling it a ‘pilot year.’ When we talk about it like that, there’s a connotation that the actual program might not come to fruition. So, we are calling it our ‘pioneer year’ for full-day kindergarten.”
Yanni said ideally, Central Bucks is going to be very happy to bring full-day kindergarten to all 15 elementary schools in the future.
“We looked at our schools and we talked at length about some of the schools not having space, and the reason why we can’t move forward with full-day kindergarten in every building next year is because we need to have sixth grade come out so we open up some real estate,” Yanni said. “After looking at where we had space, we wanted to have a group of schools that, when we looked at the students in totality, it was a microcosm of Central Bucks.”
He said there are two schools in each attendance pattern: Central Bucks School District East gets Groveland and Cold Spring, CB South gets Jamison and Mill Creek, and the West territory has Doyle and Kutz.
“We have opened up kindergarten registration for all incoming kindergartners next year, so we’ll be hearing a lot more about our pioneer program and how we plan to transition to universal full-day kindergarten in the following year,” Yanni said.
