Duneland Family YMCA Forchetti Family YMCA Center for Early Learning

Duneland Family YMCA Forchetti Family YMCA Center for Early Learning is a daycare in Chesterton, Indiana, located at 270 E Burdick Rd. It holds a rating of 3.40 based on customer reviews.

The center sits on E Burdick Rd, about seven-tenths of a mile from Billington Lake and the CFON East Headend tower, and roughly eight-tenths of a mile from Sand Creek Country Club. The Wykes-Plampin Nature Preserve is about 1.1 miles away, while Morgan Lake and the J. Timothy Ritchie Nature Preserve are each about 1.2 miles from the center.

The wider Duneland community the center serves is a 92 square-mile area in Porter County that includes the towns of Chesterton, Porter, Burns Harbor and Dune Acres, on the shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana. The area is served by the Duneland School Corporation, which is governed by an elected five-member Board of School Trustees representing more than 5,800 students from the townships of Westchester, Jackson, Liberty and part of Pine. That school system includes five elementary schools for grades K-4, two intermediate schools for grades 5-6, two middle schools for grades 7-8 and a high school for grades 9-12. Its schools provide fine arts, physical education and STEM learning at all grade levels, world language classes beginning at the middle school level, and the International Baccalaureate program at Chesterton High School, one of only 21 such programs in the state, alongside Advanced Placement, concurrent and dual credit courses and vocational and career-related offerings.

For families in Chesterton and the surrounding Porter County townships, the center offers early learning in a community where education is a central focus, from the elementary grades through the International Baccalaureate program at Chesterton High School.