APPLE HILL ACADEMY PURPOSE
Apple Hill Academy Is The Highly Respected, Intimate, Private Preschool Dedicated To Providing Supreme Excellence In Early Childhood Education.
*  The young child is masterfully enriched through exciting academic, creative, physical, and social experiences.
*  Every child has the right to enter modern Kindergarten
confidently prepared to achieve success.
*  Outstanding teachers, through unique, well-planned activities, lovingly educate each Apple Hill Academy student toward this goal. 

The Academy opened its doors in Wildwood in September 1991.  Children currently attending Apple Hill reside in approximately ten postal districts across West St. Louis.  Graduates of Apple Hill attend a variety of public, private, and parochial schools. 

The Staff of Apple Hill Academy is our finest and most important resource.  The Director and teachers hold Bachelor and/or Masters Degrees in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, or other specialty related fields.  Strong teaching experience, a positive attitude, a loving nature, creative technique, and a progressive teaching philosophy are also required. 

All relevant developmental and readiness areas are addressed within the context of entertaining, age appropriate, monthly themes.  These themes are in the content areas of science, social studies, and language arts.  The Instructional Theme Unit Approach addresses not only the obvious reading and math readiness concepts but also gives children a much broader knowledge of self and environment.  Future learning is much more easily related to, understood, and retained.  This approach, when combining developmental and academic readiness, is the most enjoyable, effective method of Early Childhood Education. 

 Apple Hill Academy admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities accorded or made available at the school. 

Apple Hill Academy classes begin on the Tuesday following Labor Day.  The year will conclude in May.  Whenever logical, the Academy will follow the Rockwood School District Holiday schedule.