Davis Parent Nursery School (DPNS) has been a vibrant co-op preschool in the Davis community for more than 75 years!

Founded in 1949, DPNS is a non-profit, parent-participation cooperative nursery school with a long history of enriching families in the Davis community. Our program is play-based and allows children to grow intellectually, socially and emotionally through first-hand experiences. Children can learn to make social contacts in groups — small and large, supervised and informal.

Parents participate alongside our professional teaching staff to support the day-to-day activities of the school, which not only enriches the environment for our students, but also connects parents with each other and encourages community support as well as learning opportunities for the parents themselves. We have two locations in Davis that provide a variety of programs to suit your family’s needs. Our 5-Day morning preschool sessions are held at our central Davis location and our 2-Day and 3-Day morning preschool sessions at our location in south Davis. In the afternoons, we offer our Extended Day program for ongoing care for preschoolers and Kindergartners. For younger children, we offer playgroup sessions for ages 12 months and older.