Spinoff POLL: How much does your charter charge for before and aftercare?

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Anonymous wrote:cap city is $200 per month, including the early release day. excellent program.

Who is the provider? Cap City itself or a contract?

[Anonymous]

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They are also charging a sliding scale fee that would be approx. $350 a month for full week before care, aftercare plus lunch for families that don't qualify for FARM but can't afford the full rate.

What is the income cutoff for getting the $350 rate? Thanks.

Depends on family size, e.g. a family of 3 or 4, the income cutoff is $8.5 - 10K above the federal FARM income limits.

[Anonymous]

Excellent way to assure an affluent student body. Go Mundo Verde and Yu Ying! You should be proud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excellent way to assure an affluent student body. Go Mundo Verde and Yu Ying! You should be proud.

How is that the case-- if you are low income, you don't have to pay for lunch and pay approx. $80 a month for afterschool care. Same as any other public school. Do you mean people in the middle? For preschoolers/early education, that is a lot cheaper (full price at MV or YY) than FT daycare (corporate or home-based).

[Anonymous]

And AppleTree charges $400 a month for aftercare. Are they trying to assure an affluent student body?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excellent way to assure an affluent student body. Go Mundo Verde and Yu Ying! You should be proud.

Oh, and it's ensure.

[Anonymous]

At YY, Is this just for the usual fees? What about the extracurricular programs that they offer? I understand that you have a choice to register for those? How much are they? I heard that they are conrtacting with very good providers...$$$???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And AppleTree charges $400 a month for aftercare. Are they trying to assure an affluent student body?

They also have a no/minimal charge for FARMS and a sliding scale. If I remember correctly, Appletree's FARMs rate is something on the order of 70 percent.

[Anonymous]

Two Rivers
375/month aftercare only (240 reduced price lunch, 200 free lunch)
440 before and aftercare (260 reduced price lunch, 260 free lunch)

Who is the provider for Cap City, please?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Do you mean people in the middle? For preschoolers/early education, that is a lot cheaper (full price at MV or YY) than FT daycare (corporate or home-based).

People in the middle may be more attracted to DCPS or charters with cheaper before/aftercare situations.

For us, I am not sure we'll be saving a lot over our very nice, but very well-priced, nonprofit daycare, which was one price for 7-6 (not that my kid was there that long, but it was flexible) 52 weeks a year, including lunch. Now I have Before Care, After Care, and Lunch -- plus the variable and unknown costs of camp. I am anticipating saving about $250 a month on months that have school every day. If there's a full week off, I think it could easily be the same as daycare.

So, it depends on the cost of before/aftercare/lunch, and what your previous daycare cost.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Do you mean people in the middle? For preschoolers/early education, that is a lot cheaper (full price at MV or YY) than FT daycare (corporate or home-based).

People in the middle may be more attracted to DCPS or charters with cheaper before/aftercare situations.

For us, I am not sure we'll be saving a lot over our very nice, but very well-priced, nonprofit daycare, which was one price for 7-6 (not that my kid was there that long, but it was flexible) 52 weeks a year, including lunch. Now I have Before Care, After Care, and Lunch -- plus the variable and unknown costs of camp. I am anticipating saving about $250 a month on months that have school every day. If there's a full week off, I think it could easily be the same as daycare.

So, it depends on the cost of before/aftercare/lunch, and what your previous daycare cost.

Wow, I didn't do a good job finding affordable daycare! My daycare provider charged $1300/mo for the same service you listed. At $550 per month for after/before care and lunch (sometimes less depending on the month) and camp ($1200 per month for July and August), I paid a lot less compared to daycare-- about $8K less per year. How much was your FT daycare-- are people finding FT daycare in this area for less than $1000 per month? I still don't see how $400-600 per month for before/aftercare and lunch plus summer camp ($2.5-3.5K for July and August) is less affordable than FT daycare and this is why I think the vast majority of middle-class parents take advantage of the free public preschool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And AppleTree charges $400 a month for aftercare. Are they trying to assure an affluent student body?

They also have a no/minimal charge for FARMS and a sliding scale. If I remember correctly, Appletree's FARMs rate is something on the order of 70 percent.

My child went to AppleTree and I just looked up the reduced FARM rate and it was $185 for aftercare only. But this is true for most of the popular charters on this board--when I did the tours last school year I asked for info about before/aftercare costs and I saw the FARM rates which are similar to AppleTree and some of the popular schools do offer sliding scale rates in addition to the FARM rate.

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Wow, I didn't do a good job finding affordable daycare! My daycare provider charged $1300/mo for the same service you listed. At $550 per month for after/before care and lunch (sometimes less depending on the month) and camp ($1200 per month for July and August), I paid a lot less compared to daycare-- about $8K less per year. How much was your FT daycare-- are people finding FT daycare in this area for less than $1000 per month? I still don't see how $400-600 per month for before/aftercare and lunch plus summer camp ($2.5-3.5K for July and August) is less affordable than FT daycare and this is why I think the vast majority of middle-class parents take advantage of the free public preschool.

PP here. Our daycare was a hair under $750 a month. So, on months where no camp is required, we'll save for sure. But in summer and in months where there's a full week off, I'm not sure (haven't done camps yet). I think we'll save overall but it's not a huge difference. The motivation for me was getting into a good school; otherwise the savings wouldn't be worth the hassle of trying to find winter/spring/summer camps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wow, I didn't do a good job finding affordable daycare! My daycare provider charged $1300/mo for the same service you listed. At $550 per month for after/before care and lunch (sometimes less depending on the month) and camp ($1200 per month for July and August), I paid a lot less compared to daycare-- about $8K less per year. How much was your FT daycare-- are people finding FT daycare in this area for less than $1000 per month? I still don't see how $400-600 per month for before/aftercare and lunch plus summer camp ($2.5-3.5K for July and August) is less affordable than FT daycare and this is why I think the vast majority of middle-class parents take advantage of the free public preschool.

PP here. Our daycare was a hair under $750 a month. So, on months where no camp is required, we'll save for sure. But in summer and in months where there's a full week off, I'm not sure (haven't done camps yet). I think we'll save overall but it's not a huge difference. The motivation for me was getting into a good school; otherwise the savings wouldn't be worth the hassle of trying to find winter/spring/summer camps.

Thanks for responding. At $750 that makes sense and btw that's great you found more affordable childcare! I do agree about getting into a good school as being important.

[Anonymous]

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So, it depends on the cost of before/aftercare/lunch, and what your previous daycare cost.

Wow, I didn't do a good job finding affordable daycare! My daycare provider charged $1300/mo for the same service you listed. At $550 per month for after/before care and lunch (sometimes less depending on the month) and camp ($1200 per month for July and August), I paid a lot less compared to daycare-- about $8K less per year. How much was your FT daycare-- are people finding FT daycare in this area for less than $1000 per month? I still don't see how $400-600 per month for before/aftercare and lunch plus summer camp ($2.5-3.5K for July and August) is less affordable than FT daycare and this is why I think the vast majority of middle-class parents take advantage of the free public preschool.

St Ann's charged $600 for care. You can find a fooddaycare center in this area for less than a grand.