This is the first year St. Helena School has had a Universal Pre-Kindergarten program, and the program was recently evaluated by the New York City Public School’s Assessment Program using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale which evaluates six aspects of our program on a scale from 1-7. St. Helena’s program, which consists of four classes, received a 5.2 overall rating, which is well above the 3.9 New York City average. We are very proud that our program received a maximum 7.0 rating for the Language Reasoning of our students, again well above the 4.7 New York City average, and the students received a 6.4 score for Interaction, as compared to the 4.7 New York City average. Congratulations to the students and teachers of our now officially outstanding UPK Program.