Welcome to the Northwest Early Childhood Center! The State of Missouri recognizes us as a Preschool, not a Daycare Center.
Welcome to Lion Care, the Northwest District's before and after school child care program! We offer competitive rates, convenient hours, and are located in your child's school-no bus needed!
Welcome to Eleyo - the Northwest Early Childhood Center's invoicing system! Below is general information regarding the tuition program and tuition payments.
Tuition Rate
The current tuition rate is $30 a day/$150 for a full 5 day week. The rate is subject to change. If the rate changes, the change will not occur during the school year and this information will be shared with returning families and on the ECC district site page. Families are pro rated for district scheduled days off/closing for district scheduled half days. In the event of an AMI, snow day, or sudden full day closure, families will be pro rated for those days as well.
Should a student be absent due to illness, planned vacations, or any other absence separate from a scheduled district day off, payments will not be prorated. This includes if the school directs the child to stay home. Families are required to pay tuition for those missed days.
School lunch is included in the tuition rate. School lunch is charged to the student's Infinite Campus Food Service Account. Accounts will be made current by the district over the summer, prior to the next school year beginning. Students are allowed to bring their own lunch from home if it is preferred.
Enrollment
The Eleyo Platform is only available for families with children enrolled in our tuition rooms to pay their child's tuition. Preschool enrollment is a separate process which is not completed through the Eleyo platform. To inquire about preschool enrollment, please call the office at 636-671-3382 or visit ECC district site page for more information.
Enrolled tuition paying families are required to create a new payment contract for each school year.
Payment
For the 24-25 school year, families must create their new payment contract by 11:59 pm Sunday, August 11 to allow the office time to approve the payment contract before the first payment is due.
Families can opt to pay the entire school year tuition balance at once, in larger increments, or on the weekly schedule for $0.39 per transaction.
For additional convenience, there is an auto payment feature available. Auto payment is highly encouraged. There is also an option to store payment information if families do not set up auto payments.
Invoices will be sent via email at 4 pm every Wednesday and payment will be due by 11:59 PM every Friday.
The first invoice will be sent at 4 pm Wednesday, August 14th. The first payment will be due by 11:59 PM Friday, August 16th. If payment is not received by the due date, a $5.00 late fee will be charged to your next invoice. If payment is not received by 11:59 PM Sunday, the student is not allowed to attend until payment has been received. This is how the payment and invoice schedule will operate for the school year.
If a student's tuition account becomes past due and payment is not received by the following week, the student cannot attend until the account has been brought current. You will continue to be charged the daily tuition rate while your child is out until payment has been received. If payment is not received by 11:59 PM the following Friday, your child will be dismissed from the program and their spot will be offered to another family. You will be responsible to pay the outstanding balance.
Tax documents will be generated by Eleyo for tuition payments made throughout the calendar year. Families will access those statements once they're available in their accounts.
Attendance
Because there is a waitlist for tuition spots, students missing 10 undocumented days will be removed from the program. This will ensure our spaces are being utilized to their fullest.
If a student is absent due to illness, planned vacations, or any other absence separate from a scheduled district day off, tuition payments will not be prorated. This includes if the school directs the child to stay home. Families are required to pay tuition for those missed days.
Potty Training
Children attending are REQUIRED to be potty trained. Children are considered potty trained if they are able to communicate they need to go to the restroom, stop what they are doing to go use the restroom, pull down their clothes and get them back up without assistance, wipe themselves after using the restroom, get on/off the toilet by themselves, wash and dry their hands, postpone going if they must wait for someone who is in the restroom or if we are away from the classroom, and awaken during nap time if they need to use the restroom.
If a student is continuing to have consistent toileting accidents after the first 6 weeks of school, teachers will notify parents/guardians with the understanding the issue needs to be addressed and corrected. If three or more accidents occur in one week, teachers will notify parents/guardians with the understanding that if the issue isn't corrected by the end of the following week, the child will have to stay home at least one week or longer until they are completely potty trained. Parents/guardians will need to contact the director to coordinate the child's return to school. If a child cannot stop having toileting accidents, they may be subject to dismissal.
For more information about the tuition program, please see the ECC Student Handbook.
For assistance navigating your account, please see the Eleyo Parent Guide.
