University Primary School to hold open house

University Primary School, the laboratory school of the College of Education, will host an open house for the community on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Children’s Research Center, 51 Gerty Drive, Champaign.

Prospective families, researchers and community members may see the preschool class from 9 a.m. to noon and the kindergarten through fifth-grade classrooms from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Applications for the 2016-17 academic year will be available in January. For more information, visit http://education.illinois.edu/ups/ or contact director Ali Lewis at 333-3996 or alilewis@illinois.edu.

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