East Hanover Cooperative Nursery School Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Young 3's programwe want your child's first exposure to school to be a positive experience that sets the tone for a lifetime of learning. The young 3's program highlights this joy of learning. In addition, age appropriate social skills are emphasized, including taking turns and sharing, learning about friendship, and using kind words.during this year, colors, shapes, and letter and number recognition is introduced. Fine motor skills are honed with art projects and crafts that are based on holidays and seasons. Large motor skills are developed through outside playground play and indoor activities with the parachute, tunnels, and listen and move activities.parents are encouraged to bring the fun from school home! Every month, the children learn a new set of songs and parents receive the words so they can sing along. Three-year-old programwe continue the social and academic skills introduced in the young 3's program. For new students, we strive to make the child's first school experience a positive and enjoyable one while creating a safe place for learning and making friends. Socialization is particularly stressed, including instilling the values of friendship, sharing, and kindness.through arts and crafts and using examples from the environment around us, we emphasize letter and number recognition along with shapes and colors. Every day at circle time we go around the room to each child and identify colors on their clothing and look around the room to identify shapes. The seasons and the calendar are discussed, including days of the week, months, year.children also learn a new set of songs each month to celebrate the holidays and the seasons. Along with the songs, children enthusiastically use finger play and hand motions to incorporate large motor skills into the fun. Large motor skills are developed through playing at the playground, climbing through tunnels, and playing with the parachute, obstacle course, and scooters.four-year-old programwe provide children with a loving and nurturing atmosphere that fosters social skills of respect, manners, and friendliness. In this caring social foundation, the children eagerly learn life and academic skills. They'll also learn their phone numbers and addresses and how to write their names, alphabet, and numbers. We focus on learning through play, promoting imagination and creativity balanced with structure.lunch bunch programthe east hanover cooperative nursery school is now offering a lunch bunch program in addition to the existing 3's class. The teacher is jennifer knapp. Jennifer earned her associate's degree from essex county college in early childhood education, and a bachelor's degree in general humanities from montclair state university. Previously, jennifer has been working as a substitute teacher and as an enrichment teacher in local school systems.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings