FCPS After Care (SACC)

[Anonymous]

We are waitlisted for SACC for next year. Is there often movement in the lists or do we need to start planning now for back up care?

[Anonymous]

Highly school dependent. Have you asked your neighbors? At our school it typically takes a year or two to get off the list.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school and where you are on the list, number of sibling entering next year as they get preference.

[Anonymous]

There will be movement over the summer bc some kids age up to middle school.

[Anonymous]

We are 5 and 6 right now. And new to the school, so we don't even know who to ask!

[Anonymous]

We were on the list for 3 years. Then COVID happened. We left FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Different schools have different amounts of turnover but at most schools, at #5, I think you'll get in.

[Anonymous]

I think you can ask the central SACC office for what’s typical, but my experience is there is movement (many reserve spots and don’t use them). Sometimes spots open up a month or so after school starts, when parents realize they are paying for care they don’t need.

You can always start at a daycare or similar that has a bus and then switch to SACC when spots open.

[Anonymous]

The lists move a lot, but they are also very long. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Call and ask them what the capacity is and what number you are in line. They're hesitant to tell you if you'll make it, but you can do the math. In our case, they have a capacity of 65, and we are #34 on the list. So no way are we getting in this year.

[Anonymous]

If care is a necessity you need to plan for after care. If you can be somewhat flexible in your schedule, at 5 on the list, I would tile the dice and hope you got in. We didn't get the notice we were off the list till the week before 1st grade.

[Anonymous]

This depends on the school - my child went from 81 on the waitlist to getting in the 2nd week of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This depends on the school - my child went from 81 on the waitlist to getting in the 2nd week of school.

But this was when you could get on the list two summers before school started. I think everything has changed since Covid

[Anonymous]

Plan for back up but it's likely you won't need it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you can ask the central SACC office for what’s typical, but my experience is there is movement (many reserve spots and don’t use them). Sometimes spots open up a month or so after school starts, when parents realize they are paying for care they don’t need.

You can always start at a daycare or similar that has a bus and then switch to SACC when spots open.

We were this family for morning care last year. We dropped two months in when we realized that half the time we were dropping our kids off 30 minutes before school started and could just take the bus.