• The Cardinal O’Connell is the inclusive Early Childhood Center for Lowell Public School. It is the first such early childhood center in Lowell. Nine of the LPS preschool classrooms are housed at the Cardinal.  Lowell Public Schools provides preschool to children that turn 4 on or before September 1st as well as young children with eligible disabilities upon their 3rd birthday receiving IEP services. At the Cardinal, we are focused on welcoming young children and their families into our district.

    The Early Childhood Center at the Cardinal O’Connell is unique in its focus on providing high quality early education to young children and their families.  Our staff is committed to helping all children develop school readiness skills prior to kindergarten entry. We provide rich content through an integrated curriculum that offers children the opportunity to participate in whole group, small group, and center-based learning. This is linked to early learning standards that focus on social emotional learning, language and literacy, self-help, fine and gross motor skills, science and technology, history and social science, and arts. 

    Our goal at the Cardinal is to strengthen the role families play as a child’s first teacher, while providing children with intentional learning opportunities that provide young children with the prerequisite skills known to positively impact school achievement.