WORCESTER, Mass. — Worcester Public Schools will add 75 full-time preschool seats at five schools and launch a new targeted special education support program for 108 preschool-age children in a cost-neutral expansion designed to better serve the district’s youngest learners.
The added seats will bring full-day Pre-K to 12 schools for the 2026-27 academic year, which begins in September. The five new schools offering full-day Pre-K are McGrath, Vernon Hill, Gates Lane and Norrback Avenue elementary schools, along with Worcester Technical High School, where professional faculty and high school students in the Early Childhood Education program operate the site.
Full-day Pre-K will continue at City View, Clark Street, Goddard, Jacob Hiatt and Nelson Place elementary schools, as well as South High Community School, where high school students and professional staff operate two programs…