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The aim of this paper is to examine the status of English programs in community child care centers located in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do and students' satisfaction rate in terms of management, contents and effectiveness of those English programs. For this purpose, surveys were conducted to 20 teachers and 174 students from 20 centers with English programs. Collected survey data was statistically analyzed using SPSS 21.0. The research results are as follows. Satisfaction rate on English programs was high in most of the items. Especially, students responded positively about ‘appropriate number of students per class’ and ‘teacher’s teaching ability.’ However, students were negative about the classroom environment. They were also negative about their interest and confidence in English with English programs provided by the centers. So follow up studies are needed to find a solution that can help improve the current problems of English programs and classroom environment.