A tour of our program is required prior to beginning the enrollment process for Little Pups Pre-K. Spots in the program are offered on a first come, first served basis. Should we reach capacity of enrollment for the school year, you will be placed on our waitlist in the same order. If a spot becomes available during the school year, we would then reach out to you to get your SCW Parent Portal account set up.
Our parent portal system is called SchoolCare Works (SCW). After you are offered a spot in our program, you will create your child's account. This is when you will pay the $100 annual registration fee for the school year. When creating your parent portal account, we encourage families to add any and all emergency contacts/authorized pick ups who can immediately pick up your child if you are unavailable. This way, they will already be in our system and have a designated PIN number, so we can release your child if needed.
Parents will submit weekly attendance schedules through the online SchoolCare Works parent portal, no later than Wednesday at 11:59pm for the following week or weeks of care, in order to allow the program time to staff and plan accordingly. If space is available, parents may sign up after the Wednesday midnight cutoff, and daily late fees will be automatically charged through the online system. Families may sign up week-to-week or for a month at time - you simply pay for what you select each time.
In order to ensure adequate staffing and keep our tuition rates affordable, we do not issue refunds or credits (applying dollars paid for absent days toward future charges), except for significant hardships such as extended illnesses, loss of employment, or family emergencies. Parents may add days after the scheduling cutoff if there is space available, and at a higher rate as outlined in the itemized fee schedule. Late schedules (submitted after Wednesday midnight cutoff) shall incur an additional $6.25 fee per day. Unscheduled services (parent must call staff in advance to ensure space is available) shall incur an additional $10.00 per child. As part of the enrollment process, each child’s account is provided up to 4 tuition vouchers per school year. These vouchers can be found and printed online in your parent portal account on SCW. Unused vouchers have no cash redeemable value. A signed hard copy of the voucher must be submitted to the Program Supervisor within 30 calendar days of the date requested to be eligible. All vouchers expire the last day of school.
The Little Pups Pre-K program follows all decisions announced by the school district. For example if DCSD announces a Snow Day, the program will be CLOSED and you will be credited tuition (if you signed up for the snow day) for up to 3 snow days. If there is a Delay, we will open 90 minutes after our opening time (8:30am). Occasionally we have announced Early Dismissals, which means after school activities are cancelled and all students must be picked up at the time announced in the closure (end of the school day at 3:30pm).
Once accepted into the program we will need some additional documents on file for your child. We will need the following forms:
Child's Birth Certificate
Current Immunization Record
Health Appraisal Form signed by your child's doctor