About Us
Learning to Learn & Thrive since 1939!
Opportunity Early Childhood Education and Family Center is one of Palm Beach's oldest charities and has been a United Way agency since its inception. Our primary focus is to serve the children of working families through the delivery of high quality early childhood education which benefits our entire community.
Why Opportunity?
Education can change a child's life.
Opportunity is accredited by the National Accreditation Commission (NAC)
Opportunity is recognized by a Gold Seal School of Excellence by the Florida Department of Children & Families.

For four consecutive years, Opportunity has earned Five+ Stars, the highest rating awarded by its rating agency, Quality Counts of Palm Beach County.
Our Mission
Empowering the children of working families to achieve academic and life success through educational programs that embrace the whole child and through family programming.
Our History
"Help others to help themselves."
Opportunity, Inc. was founded by the compassionate and visionary women of the Episcopal Church Guild of Bethesda by the Sea in Palm Beach in the early 1930's.
Their desire was to make life better for the less fortunate.
"It was about 1931, a real slump year, no Community Chest, no agencies to relieve the suffering caused by the Depression; children so hungry, they were falling asleep in school," related Winifred Anthony in a 1972 Palm Beach Post interview.
*PB Post article 4-12-1972 by Fran Hathaway
Opportunity Today
Opportunity Early Childhood Education & Family Center offers a comprehensive nationally accredited program of school readiness training, fine and performing arts, recreation, health and nutrition, social development and field trips. Each program is specifically designed to prepare our children to begin kindergarten on an equal footing with their higher income classmates.
Opportunity is rated four stars by Charity Navigator, it is accredited by the National Accreditation Commission and has received the Gold Seal of School Excellence from the Florida Department of Children and Families. Opportunity employs fully certified preschool teachers who are required to pursue continued education in early childhood development.
Since its founding in 1939 Opportunity has expanded its mission of offering low cost, quality preschool child care to include support services for families. We currently serve 96 children and their families. There are more than 300 children on the waiting list.