Cub Scout packs (unlike GS troops) need a community charter. For our pack, it is the local Rotary club. For many packs, it is a religious institution. Some happen to meet at a school and recruit largely from a school but they are not officially school affiliated. I think our pack is having its first interest meeting this Friday but it’s usually easy enough to join anytime relatively early in the year.
Note that the younger sister will be in a different den so that will be a different meeting for you to attend. Cub scouts (unlike GS) parents stay for the meetings. But there will be some efficiencies of scale with the pack meetings, assuming your pack has a den that will accept girls (I’m not sure if they all do but I think in this area most do).