Wiscasset Primary School’s kindergarten through fourth grades are not the only classes facing a move when the school closes after this school year. The school on Gardiner Road has also housed a Head Start program for several years, serving children ages 3 and 4 and their families.

Now the Wiscasset School Department and the Bath-based nonprofit that runs the program will be working out what comes next.

Susan Kingsland, director of child and family services for Midcoast Maine Community Action (MMCA), said she will be talking soon with Wiscasset’s interim superintendent of schools Lyford Beverage.

The nonprofit runs the Wiscasset program and Head Starts in Newcastle and Waldoboro, as well as ones in Sagadahoc County and Brunswick.

Neither Kingsland nor Beverage, interviewed separately, had any predictions yet where the Head Start program will be placed. The department will need to work with the nonprofit on that, just as the department has other decisions to make on “satellite” services displaced or potentially displaced by the the school’s consolidation with Wiscasset Middle School, Beverage said.

Among those decisions is the location of the superintendent’s office, currently set up at the middle school, he said.

“It’s a big ball of clay that we’re trying to give shape to,” Beverage said of the consolidation work.

Kingsland called the Head Start’s presence in Wiscasset a win-win for the agency and the school department. The program provides preschool services that are primarily educational but also benefit the children and their families through health and other services, she said. And the space the school department provides for the program counts toward the agency’s in-kind match to the federal funds it receives to run Head Start.

“We certainly are interested in staying in Wiscasset (and) anticipate staying in Wiscasset,” Kingsland said. ”It’s a very nice community partnership.”

Twenty children, mostly from Wiscasset, currently attend the program, she said.