The article deals with the development of socio-cultural competencies in students of pre-school educational institutions. Based on the analysis of scientific literature, the authors reveal the essence of sociocultural competences in general and highlight their significance for pupils. Based on the fact that sociocultural competence is an integrative characteristic of a person who presupposes knowledge in various social and cultural spheres, includes the ability and willingness to interact with other people in different life ranges, the ability to use information resources for creative meaning in the information space, the authors present a study conducted over two years in a municipal budgetary pre-school educational institution kindergarten "cloud". For a full-fledged study, the article analyzes the level of formation of sociocultural competences in 2017 (before the introduction of the model) and in 2018 after its implementation. The study is carried out with the grant support for young scientists -candidates of sciences, number MK-313.2019.6, issued by the President of the Russian Federation Comparison of indicators allowed one to establish the degree of effectiveness of the proposed model. To identify the degree of formation of competencies, the authors proposed several levels: low, medium and sufficient.SHS Web of Conferences 69, 00113 (2019)