Ribbon cutting at the newest child care facility at Beaver Dam

(Beaver Dam) The ribbon was cut on Beaver Dam’s newest child care facility. The Beaver Dam Unified School District has partnered with Community Care to convert Wilson Elementary into a child care site. The transition will begin next year as Community Care will provide infant care at Wilson in the school’s final official school year.

Beginning in the fall of 2025, students currently residing in the Wilson area will attend Washington Elementary. At this time, the current Wilson space – located at 405 West 3rd Street – will be operated by Community Care.

Renae Henning, Head of Community Care Preschool and Child Care, is pleased about the expansion and growth of her activities.

“We are very fortunate to have two empty classrooms here at Wilson because we still have students here this school year… but we share the space with our friends who are in elementary school because we have two classrooms here,” Henning said. “In the summer of 2025, we will all be coming here for preschool classes and all of our operations will be right here…so we will be tenants of this beautiful space.”

The site, which remains the property of the Beaver Dam School District, will be operated by Community Care under a long-term lease of the facility. County Executive Mark DiStefano says that in addition to child care services, the building will maintain its rooted history in education as it will be home to as many as two divisions of four-year-old kindergarten through the county’s long-standing community 4K programming.