Early Childhood
Pre-Kindergarten Application Process for 2024-2025
Parents should attend a Pre-Kindergarten Mass Registration:
Saturday, April 13, 2024 or Saturday, May 18, 2024 at Humble ISD Early Childhood Center, 8105 E North Belt, Humble, TX 77396, from 8 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
No appointments needed.
Early Childhood Information
At Humble ISD we are excited about providing the full-day Pre-Kindergarten experience for four-year olds. The Pre-K program for the 2024-2025 school year will be available in 23 schools across the district and registrations are available throughout the school year.
Visit the Pre-Kindergarten Registration Website for enrollment details.
Early Childhood Mission Statement
Our mission is to collaborate with stakeholders to develop a strong foundation that encourages a lifelong love for learning academic concepts through purposeful play. By providing a fun and safe learning environment where everyone is treated with love and respect, our children will become independent positive contributors and influencers in our community.
Early Childhood Vision Statement
Our vision is to ignite a lifelong foundational love for learning that encourages social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development to support individual growth and to empower positive values and responsibility to care for the world around us.
Early Childhood Collective Commitments
We will treat everyone with love and respect.
We will actively meet each student at their level.
We will provide an environment that recognizes and accepts the student’s academic, social emotional, and cultural needs.
We will provide our students with a safe environment.
We will partner with families to provide resources to help support learning.
We will provide opportunities for independent learning.
We will encourage creativity and expression in a variety of forms and media.
We will teach our students self-regulation strategies.
We will teach the whole child through purposeful play.
We will develop social and emotional skills in our students.
Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) Information
Early Childhood Education in Humble ISD is a continuum of service that targets children from birth through Kindergarten enrollment. The continuum includes childcare services found at the Early Learning Center (children of Pregnancy Related Services students and Employee Childcare) and Child Find Services designed to support the identification and programming for children with identified disabilities for children from birth to age 3. Children with identified disabilities are served in the school setting by their third birthday and continue until transitioning to kindergarten programming.
Preschool services for children age 4 on or before September 1st of the current school year are TEA eligibility based. These services are comprehensive and address the High Quality Indicators promoted by HB4. The areas of focus include implementation of a comprehensive curriculum aligned with the Texas PreKindergarten Guidelines, ongoing data collection and review to guide program changes, highly qualified teachers who meet additional requirements for early education including a comprehensive PD/PLC plan, staff to student ratios of 1:11, family engagement that includes support to the community partners supporting early education within district boundaries.
The goal is to provide high quality services through a comprehensive continuum that meets unique learner needs and promotes early learning success for all students served.
Resources
Potty Training Webinar Recording - Practical potty training tips and tools for Humble ISD families
Literacy Activities for Young Children Recording - Build foundational reading skills with phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and literacy games
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI)
Birth to Preschool
Humble ISD is responsible for identifying, locating, and evaluating children with disabilities who are in need of special education and related services and who reside within the school district's boundaries. The district is also responsible for those students who do not reside within the boundaries, but whose grandparent resides in the district and provides a substantial amount of after-school care. This is to be determined by the district's Board of Trustees. Children who have a disability or who are suspected of having a disability, may be referred to Humble ISD.
Easter's Seals: ECI Infant Program Dena Day, 713-838-9050, ext. 303
Bay Area Rehabilitation: ECE Program, 281-838-4477
ECI of MHMRA Harris County, 713-970-4800
For children who are school-age (ages 3 through 21), please contact the elementary, middle, or high school that serves your particular neighborhood or location.
For children who are below school-age (birth through 2), please contact the Special Education Department at 281-641-8326, or your ECI Agency at 281-696-2130 (all areas excluding zip code 77044) and 281-838-4477 (all areas with zipcode 77044).
Early Childhood Intervention is a program for children from birth to two years of age who are behind others their age in sitting, walking, talking, or getting along with other children. If you are unsure of which school would serve your neighborhood or location, or if you are making a referral during the summer, please call Special Education at 281-641-8326. All referrals are confidential and the parent, legal guardian, or surrogate parent has the right to refuse services.
Other Parent Resources
Recursos en Español:
Who do I contact if I am concerned about my child's development?
Developmental Milestones
Skills such as taking a first step, smiling for the first time, and waving "bye bye" are called developmental milestones. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act, and move (crawling, walking, etc.).
What is Child Find?
Child Find is a process designed to identify, locate and evaluate individuals birth to 21 years
of age with disabilities who may need special education services.
Who can begin the Child Find Process?
Anyone can start the process: a parent, doctor, teacher, relative, or friend can call Humble ISD,
Special Education Department at 281-641-8410.
Why should we refer?
Early identification and intervention can prevent failure and frustration. Special attention to
teaching and learning strategies may help individuals overcome barriers to learning.
What happens after the child is referred?
The parent(s) or legal guardian will be contacted by Humble ISD.
Parents and the school will decide if an assessment is needed.
An assessment plan designed to evaluate areas of concern may be developed.
Qualified school district personnel will conduct an evaluation.
The parents and evaluation personnel will have a meeting to talk about assessment results, special education eligibility and services.
Who may qualify for special education services?
Individuals who are identified as having any of the following disabilities according to federal and state criteria: • Learning Disability • Speech Impairment • Orthopedic Impairment • Other Health Impairment • Intellectual Disability • Emotional Disturbance • Autism • Multiple Disabilities • Traumatic Brain Injury • Visual Impairment • Auditory Impairment • Deaf-Blindness • Noncategorical Early Childhood
Students attending private schools within Humble ISD boundaries are included in Child Find.
How much do services cost?
All services are provided at no cost to the individual, parents, or guardian.
Information provided by: Region IV Educational Service Center 7145 West Tidwell Houston, TX 77092
