Windham Southeast School District Early Education Services (EES)
Serving Brattleboro and Windham Counties in Vermont.
Windham Southeast School District Early Education Services provides Head Start and Early Head Start programs, along with a wide range of family supports for young children in Windham County. From early education to parenting workshops, support groups, and community resources, we help children and families thrive
Our EES Head Start Programs and Services:
Early Education Services (EES) is a designated federally funded Head Start/Early Head Start and Vermont state funded Parent Child Center.
We receive a range of federal and state funds which enable us to offer a wide menu of program services available to families with young children in Windham County.
In addition to early education programming for children, we also offer Dedicated Dads support groups, parenting workshops and support groups, smoking cessation support, car seat safety training, emergency financial assistance, financial planning workshops, special family events and much more.
Our Program Locations:
We are the only Head Start program and one of two Parent Child Center programs in Vermont, administered by a school district.
- 130 Birge St., Brattleboro: Early Head Start & Head Start full day/full year classrooms, Parent-Child Center and Admin Offices.
- Brattleboro Early Education Center: Full day/full year and school day/school year classrooms. Head Start partnership with our school district located at Canal St. School.
- Infant Toddler Center: Early Head Start full day/full year classroom at located at Brattleboro Union High School.
- Westminster Head Start: Full day/full year classroom at 54 Buck Drive, Westminster, VT.
- Westminster Early Head Start: Full day/full year classroom and Parent-Child Center satellite site at 78 Buck Drive, Westminster.
- West Bee Nursery: Head Start partnership full day/school year classroom at 880 Western Ave. Brattleboro, VT.
- Horizon Early Learning Program-West: Head Start and Early Head Start partnership full day/full year classrooms at Croker Hall, 60 Austine Drive, Brattleboro VT.
- Home Base slots for 22 Early Head Start children/pregnant families throughout Windham County.
Windham Southeast School District Early Education Services — Ready to Learn More or Apply?
Visit EES Head Start’s program website to explore their services and find out how to register your child.
Serving Windham County in Vermont.
130 Birge Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
802-254-3742
Career Openings: earlyeducationservices.org/job-opportunities
Our Community
While we do serve all of Windham County with home visiting and parent support services, our classroom centers are located in the most populated communities of Brattleboro and Westminster (Bellows Falls).
These are two very different communities. Brattleboro is the county seat, the most southeastern section of Vermont bordered by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is the first exit off interstate 91, attracting a diverse population of young families who move here from the cities of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. As host to the Brattleboro Retreat, the town and surrounding areas offer a wealth of substance abuse support and other services, making it a desirable location to live in.
Eighteen miles north of Brattleboro, our Westminster classrooms serve children and families from that town and the surrounding Rockingham villages, especially Bellows Falls. The area has a rich agricultural landscape and culture that thrives today. Children who attend this Head Start site come from the highest number of two parent families in our program.
Bellows Falls has historically been one of the highest Vermont communities with teen pregnancies, although there has been a significant downturn in this trend over recent years. The families we serve at this site bring a deep respect for Vermont Yankee traditions.
Growing Together: Our Westminster Head Start Garden Project
Our garden at Westminster Head Start is a project involving curriculum, nutrition, sustainability, community and families. This is an agricultural community, where our center is surrounded by family farms. We are learning about how plants produce fruit and veggies and how the bees and butterflies use pollination to make things grow.
Our Nutritionist will be teaching us about healthy food and what to do with our veggies. We are learning how lots of people contribute as a team to make things happen and when there is an abundance of food from the crop we share it. We will have some kind of harvest part in the fall with our bounty and invite our families to the feast.
One of our families donated the soil for our garden, and Allen Brothers Farm delivered the soil at no charge. We just planted our seedlings and we are taking pictures all summer and will create our own book at the end illustrating the whole project!
Windham Southeast School District EES Photo Highlights:
