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Pacifica Playschool offers indoor and outdoor activities that include music, drama, arts, literature, science, nature, dramatic play, card games, duck-duck goose, dancing, singing, building, baking, stories, art, arts and crafts, table games, and music and movement. It is a family owned and operated preschool for young children with a welcoming classroom setting and a playful learning environment.
• Ages: 2–5 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 7:30 AM–5:30 PM
Pacifica Playschool was founded in 1959 and has been providing a playful education for children ages 2–5 years old in Pacifica for more than 55 years. It provides educational care to children from ages 2–5 and offers full-day, half-day, morning, and afternoon preschool sessions, with the option for children to attend as few as three half-day or three full-day sessions a week. The program provides nutritious morning and afternoon snacks and a hot home cooked lunch served daily, and the classroom teacher-to-child ratio is 1:8. Its curriculum develops emotional, social, physical, and intellectual skills necessary for future education and includes kindergarten readiness programs. Pacifica Playschool’s philosophy and values are to provide a safe and nurturing environment for a child to develop a positive self-image, independence, to question and appreciate their learning experience, and to provide a happy place for young children where each child is nurtured and given a playful learning environment.
Staff have completed early childhood courses and have received training in CPR and First Aid. The Owner/Director, Suzanne Wheeler Johnson, earned Early Childhood Education and Administration Certificates from Canada College in 1988, and a teacher earned Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education Certification/Teaching Permit from Skyline College in 2009. Pacifica Playschool participates in the Professional Association for Childhood Education, Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County, National Association for the Education of the Young Child, San Mateo Association for the Education of the Young Child, Pacifica Chamber of Commerce, and Moose Lodge. Pacifica Playschool has won Best Preschool for three years running and is currently enrolling for summer and fall.
Last updated August 1, 2026.
• Ages: 2–5 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 7:30 AM–5:30 PM
Pacifica Playschool was founded in 1959 and has been providing a playful education for children ages 2–5 years old in Pacifica for more than 55 years. It provides educational care to children from ages 2–5 and offers full-day, half-day, morning, and afternoon preschool sessions, with the option for children to attend as few as three half-day or three full-day sessions a week. The program provides nutritious morning and afternoon snacks and a hot home cooked lunch served daily, and the classroom teacher-to-child ratio is 1:8. Its curriculum develops emotional, social, physical, and intellectual skills necessary for future education and includes kindergarten readiness programs. Pacifica Playschool’s philosophy and values are to provide a safe and nurturing environment for a child to develop a positive self-image, independence, to question and appreciate their learning experience, and to provide a happy place for young children where each child is nurtured and given a playful learning environment.
Staff have completed early childhood courses and have received training in CPR and First Aid. The Owner/Director, Suzanne Wheeler Johnson, earned Early Childhood Education and Administration Certificates from Canada College in 1988, and a teacher earned Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education Certification/Teaching Permit from Skyline College in 2009. Pacifica Playschool participates in the Professional Association for Childhood Education, Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County, National Association for the Education of the Young Child, San Mateo Association for the Education of the Young Child, Pacifica Chamber of Commerce, and Moose Lodge. Pacifica Playschool has won Best Preschool for three years running and is currently enrolling for summer and fall.
Last updated August 1, 2026.
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