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The article defines the place and role the analysis of the environment of preschool educational organizations (PEO) plays in elaborating its development programs and explains the reasons for it. It specifies its main objectives, analyzing changes in the characteristics of a PEO social order, changes in the regulatory framework and the sources and amount of PEO funding, changes in the composition and quality of competitors’ services. A detailed structure of a social order and its main levels (a government order, an order by organizations and institutions; a private order) are provided. The main components of a social order including the requirements by the state for a PEO in line with society’s needs and interests, students’ needs, parents’ expectations, professional teachers’ needs, educational institutions’ requirements and expectations are defined. Analysis tools including surveys, tests, interviewing parents, teachers’ expert evaluations, public discussion of PEO issues, analysis of comments on PEO leavers and their academic achievements at primary school are described. The factors that make the PEO environment analysis method successful are defined.