A Guiding Light to a Love of Learning
Providing Tuition Preschool and Before/After School Care to over 500 children at nine sites!
Tuition Preschool Registration for the 2024-2025 school year will begin in February 1 for returning families and March 1 for new families. Please call Susan at (231) 893-1000 x 2510 or susanmulvey@wlace.org for more information!
Lighthouse Learning Before/After School Program Registration for the 2024-2025 school year will begin February 1 for returning families and March 1 for new families. Please contact Susan at (231) 893-1000 x 2510 or susanmulvey@wlace.org for more information!
Enroll in our Tuition Preschool!
Lighthouse Learning offers high quality tuition preschool for three- and four-year olds at McMillan Early Childhood Center and North Muskegon Elementary. The McMillan Tuition preschool program is dedicated to the Montessori curriculum; North Muskegon follows a theme-based curriculum.
We proudly provide a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. In our classrooms, children make creative choices in their learning, while the classroom and the highly trained teacher offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process. Our staff have a great love and respect of the child, providing a safe, secure environment in a fully licensed room.
Now offering Before and After School Programs at nine sites!
WLACE Lighthouse Learning has wonderful relationships with five of Muskegon County's school districts. For your convenience, we open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m. We offer flexible schedules to ensure your family's needs are met. Because our sites are located within school buildings, transportation is not needed between our sites and your child's school - they simply walk down the hall! We offer care on early release days, half days, snow days and non-school days. We provide healthy snacks, art projects, reading and homework time, Stem Activities (RRO and WLCC), YMCA HOST program, free time and plenty of outdoor time!
“But the child too is a worker and a producer. If he cannot take part in the adult's work, he has his own, a great, important, difficult work indeed - the work of producing man. ” - Maria Montessori (The Secret of Childhood)
Tuition Preschool is offered for 3- and 4-year olds at the following sites:
McMillan Early Childhood Center
North Muskegon Elementary
Before and After School is offered for 3-12 year olds at the following sites:
Holton - District Services Building (ages 3-12) (a.m. only)
Montague - MACC (ages 3-5)
Montague - RRO (ages 5-12)
North Muskegon - North Muskegon Elementary (ages 3-12)
Reeths Puffer - Central Elementary (ages 5-12)
Reeths Puffer - McMillan Early Childhood Center (ages 3-5)
Reeths Puffer - Twin Lake Elementary (ages 5-12)
Reeths Puffer - Reeths Puffer Elementary (ages 5-12)
Whitehall - WLCC (White Lake Community Center) (ages 3-12)
Enrollment Information
Registration forms may be obtained from the site you are interested in or by calling Susan Mulvey at (231) 893-1000 x 2510.
Program Information
Our sites open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m. We offer care all year - summer, school days, non-school days, snow days, mid-winter break and spring break. We do close for holidays and an extended break the end of December.
Tuition preschool is offered three (M-T-W) or four (M-T-W-Th) days per week. It lasts 3.5 hours per day, with wrap-around care offered. All day care is available on Fridays.
Before/After school care is offered every morning and afternoon that school is open, plus all day during the summer, non-school days, snow days, mid-winter break and spring break. Lighthouse is flexible with hours and days of attendance.
Contact Us
Site Contact Numbers
Central Elementary 231.744.1693 x 2525
Holton DSB 231.821.1938
MACC (Montague Area Childhood Center) 231.981.4697
RRO 231.981.4637
McMillan Early Childhood Center 231.766.3443 x 2631
North Muskegon Elementary 231.719.4235
Reeths Puffer Elementary 231.744.4777 x 2017
Twin Lake Elementary 231.719.3190 x 2206
White Lake Community Center 231.893.1098
Lighthouse Learning Dates to Remember
Holton School District
January 15 Martin Luther King Day - No School - LH Closed
January 18-19 Half Day - LH Open before school
February 19-23 Mid-Winter Break - No School - LH Closed
Montague Area Public Schools
January 18-19 Half days - LH Open
January 31 No School - LH Open
February 16-20 Mid-Winter Break - No School - LH Open
North Muskegon Public Schools
January 15 No School - LH Open
January 19 Half Day - LH Open
February 19 - 20 Mid Winter Break - No School - LH Open
Reeths Puffer Schools
January 15 Martin Luther King Day - No School - LH Open
January 19 Half Day - LH Open
February 2 Half Day - LH Open
February 19-20 Mid-Winter Break - No School - LH Open
Whitehall District Schools
January 15 Martin Luther King Day - No School - LH Open
February 19-23 Mid-Winter Break - No School - LH Open