What do you do if your FCPS doesn't have SACC?

[Anonymous]

We're looking at houses and I'm noticing that several of the elementary schools (White Oaks in Burke is one) don't offer before/after care? What do you do if both parents work and need to leave earlier than school starts if your elementary school doesn't offer SACC?

[Anonymous]

Local daycares and TKD places usually offer before/after care with bus transportation. Call the school and ask which places do kiss & ride pickup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're looking at houses and I'm noticing that several of the elementary schools (White Oaks in Burke is one) don't offer before/after care?

From an older thread:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/153959.page#1394641

Of the 139 elementary schools in Fairfax County, four do not have SACC (provided by the County, not FCPS). Those four schools are:

Clearview
Fort Belvoir
Louise Archer
White Oaks

According to the thread referenced above, White Oaks now has extended care but it is contracted via Sparkles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking at houses and I'm noticing that several of the elementary schools (White Oaks in Burke is one) don't offer before/after care?

From an older thread:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/153959.page#1394641

Of the 139 elementary schools in Fairfax County, four do not have SACC (provided by the County, not FCPS). Those four schools are:

Clearview
Fort Belvoir
Louise Archer
White Oaks

According to the thread referenced above, White Oaks now has extended care but it is contracted via Sparkles.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Word to the wise...Even if a school has SACC, you can't by any means assume you will get in. Waiting lists can be very long and it can be next to impossible to get a slot, especially since sign-up is a full YEAR in advance. You'll want to investigate and line-up backup options even if you have a SACC program in your new school.

[Anonymous]

Our waiting list in McLean, where most most DON'T work, was 2 years for SACC.

[Anonymous]

Call around to the local preschools of areas you're considering - many may have before and after-school programs for school-aged kids. Our preschool in Annandale has one, though you have to be enrolled in the closest elementary school to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waiting lists can be very long and it can be next to impossible to get a slot, especially since sign-up is a full YEAR in advance.

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ofc/Sacc.htm

SACC enrollment for the 2012-2013 school year starts in July!

Enrollment dates are set alphabetically by the elementary school your child(ren) will attend:

Beginning the week of July 11th: enrollment for schools beginning with letters A - F (Aldrin - Freedom Hill).
Beginning the week of July 18th: enrollment for schools beginning with letters G - O (Garfield - Orange Hunt).
Beginning the week of July 25th: enrollment for schools beginning with letters P - W (Parklawn - Woodley Hills).

For example, if you would like to enroll your child for SACC services at Bush Hill Elementary, you are able to call beginning the week of July 11, 2011.

To enroll your child, please call SACC Registration at 703-449-8989, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday, according to the dates above. If space is not currently available at your school, you may choose to have your child's name added to the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Got on right at 8am for SACC sign up for our school the first day of its registration and I'm in the 80's for BF and early 100's for AF. I knew it would be tough going in but I though since I got registered the minute it started we'd have a little better placement on the list. At least I have an entire year to figure/way out options but I'm sure those will fill up too...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our waiting list in McLean, where most most DON'T work, was 2 years for SACC.

DO you mind posting what your Afterschool care number was(if you even remember at this point!)-it might give us some idea of how long we will have to wait.

[Anonymous]

New Poster, but I signed up for our McLean ES SACC program on the absolute first day possible (July of the summer BEFORE our child started kindergarten) and was 89th on the waiting list for the afterschool care.

A week and a half before the school year started, we got the call that we had a slot. I had already gotten separate arrangements and let them give the slot to #90.

[Anonymous]

I agree -- we are in a school with a SACC program but there is no way to get a slot. I didn't sign my 3 year old up for the waitlist, so he was unable to get a K slot. He went to parochial school with an aftercare program (which is slightly more expensive than SACC but about even if I was paying TKD or daycare to pick him up). My friends moved down the street to a different elementary school district and were able to get in SACC right away. I really feel like this is a downside to the FCPS SACC system. You can end up paying much more than your neighbors for aftercare simply because your school has a very popular aftercare program (i.e. more WOHM's than SAHM's).

[Anonymous]

We pay a daycare center for before and after care.

[Anonymous]

If you have a child in SACC, do you have to get on the waitlist for younger siblings? Curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a child in SACC, do you have to get on the waitlist for younger siblings? Curious.

Yes. Each child is individually enrolled/waitlisted. Siblings do get priority, but there is no guarantee of placement.