Child Development Center

Oceanside, Building 8000: 760.795.6656

MiraCosta's Child Development Center serves as a campus-based educational program, providing both academic instruction to college students enrolled in early childhood education courses and child care to student, staff, and community families. The center's classrooms provide developmentally appropriate, play-based, and inclusive early care and education for children between the ages of 18 months and 5 1/2 years.

Located on the Oceanside Campus, the Child Development Center is open weekdays from 7:15 a.m.–5 p.m. throughout the academic year. Morning classrooms are offered from 9 a.m. until noon (with transition times to assist with class schedules and parking); the afternoon classroom is from 1 until 4 p.m. The lunch program is offered from noon until 12:45 p.m. as an extension to the morning program. The center offers early care between 7:15 and 8:45 a.m. and late care between 4 and 4:45 p.m. MiraCosta's student families receive priority enrollment as well as reduced fees.

Applications for enrollment are available online each semester at the center's Web site: www.miracosta.edu/childdev. For additional information and program requirements, interested families should visit the Child Development Center and its Web site or call 760.795.6656.