Founded in 1939, Beverley Hills Church Preschool is the oldest parent cooperative preschool in Virginia. We are a lively community of children, families and teachers with a strong tradition of parent leadership, collaborative effort, and child-sensitive frameworks for growth and learning.

Beverley Hills Church Preschool, in sustained partnership with the Beverley Hills United Methodist Church, is a place that has always valued the growth and learning of all in our midst. The core of our educational philosophy is that children actively make meaning from their learning encounters, whether through direct interaction with materials and phenomena in their environment or through social interactions with peers and adults.

Our school has its roots in progressive American educational philosophy and practices, and its inspiration today from more recent research in cognitive and cultural studies. For the past 15 years we have been influenced by the early childhood educational approach of the Reggio Emilia schools of Italy.