Rocky Hill Cooperative Nursery School

where teachers, parents, and children work together to provide a rich preschool experience

FAMILY. COMMUNITY. EXPLORATION.

RHCNS is a fully certified, non-profit and non-sectarian community for Rocky Hill, Montgomery, Princeton, Hillsborough, Hopewell, Kendall Park, Kingston, Franklin, South Brunswick and surrounding areas. We are located in the heart of New Jersey’s historic Rocky Hill Borough, in Rocky Hill’s Municipal Building with a beautiful open space and wonderful playground.


WE ARE NOW ENROLLING FOR FALL 2026!

You can now easily apply through Brightwheel after creating a login. There is no application fee.

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RHCNS admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

Cooperative

Why choose a Cooperative Preschool?

Find out more here!

Distinctive

We are play-based, developmentally appropriate, and have a heavy emphasis on nature.

Find out more about our curriculum and our Music Together program.

Program

Our program is for 3 and 4 year olds in a multiage class setting.

Find out more here!

Mrs. Linden's Blog

Regulations, Conversations, and Webinars, Oh My!

Wow, what a world!   Since the beginning of June I’ve been researching, watching webinars, emailing/talking with other directors as well as our state inspector (and Parent Board) almost daily about how to reopen our school as safely as possible in September.  One of the big differences of our parent co-op is that we are NOT running…

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Keeping Connections

“Zooming” has taken on a new meaning in preschool.  Once upon a time it meant a child was pretending to be an airplane in class, and a teacher would remind them to use “walking feet.”  Now it means teachers have to say, “Please don’t unmute yourself, I can’t hear who’s talking.”  Other times the teacher says, “Whoever is  drawing…

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What is Play-Based Learning?

Play. Once upon a time, it was almost universally accepted that children play. In kindergarten, children played. In first grade, I remember the teacher playing a ball bouncing song, and we learned to bounce a playground ball and catch it with two hands.  In the classroom.  Now, even in preschool, play can be seen as…

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