The Ark Preschool was established in 1971 and is sponsored by Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant Church as an outreach to the community. The school offers two-, three- and four-day programs for children ages nearly 3 to 5 years old and seeks to foster all aspects of a child's development through storytelling, art, music, movement and dramatic play centered around a variety of daily and weekly themes. In the church's education wing, at the corner of Hawthorne Boulevard and Kenilworth Avenue, the school admits any fully toilet-trained child who turns three by the end of December.