Samaritan Early Learning Center

Welcome to Samaritan Early Learning Center

Children are natural explorers, adventurers and learners who thrive with caring adult support and encouragement.

At Samaritan Early Learning Center, we create fun learning experiences for infants, toddlers and children with activities that reflect their developmental stage.

Serving the children and families of Lincoln City and north Lincoln County for the past three decades, we opened our new learning center just south of Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in 2011. The building is specifically designed to meet the developmental and educational needs of young children in a bright and lively setting, both indoors and out.

In 2015, Samaritan Early Learning Center’s commitment to quality was recognized with a five-star rating, the highest quality rating possible from Oregon’s Quality Recognition and Improvement System (QRIS) known as Spark. This means we are among the select few top-rated infant/toddler preschool programs in Lincoln County and the entire northern and central Oregon coast!

For more information, please send us an email.

Meals

We serve breakfast, lunch and a snack and participate in the USDA Food Service Program.

USDA Statement

Visitor Information

Samaritan Early Learning Center3070 NE 28th Street
Lincoln City, OR 97367

Directions

Hours: Open 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. Closed on holidays.

Phone: 541-994-4208

Fax: 541-994-4153

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Holidays

We are open 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday year-round, except on the following holidays:

New Year’s Day (Jan. 1).
Memorial Day (Last Monday in May).
Independence Day (July 4).
Labor Day (First Monday in September).
Thanksgiving day (Last Thursday in November).
Day after Thanksgiving day.
Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).
Christmas day (Dec. 25).

If one of these holidays falls on a weekend, the center will be closed on the business day closest to the holiday.

Five-star QRIS Rating

In 2015, our commitment to quality was recognized with a five-star rating, the highest quality rating possible from Oregon’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS).

What does it mean to be a five-star rated center? Children need a strong foundation in their earliest years when the brain is growing rapidly. In a warm, nurturing and supportive environment, children can develop the language skills, cognitive functioning, social skills and emotional wellbeing to help them succeed when they reach kindergarten and beyond. The QRIS rating ensures that we:

Use best practices in adult/child interactions.
Encourage parents to take an active role.
Have a well-educated leader.
Employ well-educated staff.
Regularly evaluate employees using observations.
Provide employment benefits to staff.
Support staff professional development.
Use accepted curriculum.
Perform child development assessments.
Document and teach to children’s learning levels.

Ages & Prices

At Samaritan Early Learning Center, we offer a friendly, safe and nurturing atmosphere to all children. We focus on the whole child, including social, emotional, physical and academic growth. Every four months, children are assessed for important developmental milestones, and we have access to the resources and support needed to help keep children on track.

Ages Served

Infant and toddler program, ages 6 weeks through 24 months.
Twos program, ages 24 to 36 months.
Preschool program, ages 3 to 5.
School age program, kindergarten through second grade.

Tuition

Fees vary based on child’s age and attendance. Please contact us for a tuition schedule.

We Are a Preschool Promise Program Site

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Immunization & Exemption Rate

By law, we must share our immunization and exception rates twice a year, once around the beginning of the school year and again around Exclusion Day, which is always the third Wednesday in February.

The goal is for least 95% of children to be immunized for community protection, though the percentage varies by disease. When 95% of children are vaccinated in a school or child care facility, this significantly reduces the chance of spreading the disease among vulnerable individuals.

Here is the percentage of our students, ages 19 months through prekindergarten, who have been vaccinated as of March 2023: