Waitlist Procedure

In the event that the After School Program is not able to accommodate all registration requests, children will be placed in one of the following two Waitlist groups; Site Reserved Waitlist and Site General Waitlist.

• Reserved Waitlist; Student placement is pending a planned additional staff hire. (We hire continuously, but the hire process at times hits delays.) Once the new staff member has been cleared, trained, and assigned... students will be placed from the Site Reserved Waitlist.

• General Waitlist; Student placement is pending another student dropping from the program. Once sites have a full compliment of staffing and there is no pending staff hire, students will be added only when another a student ends enrollment, thus creating a space.

• The Waitlist is reviewed weekly on Thursdays. When space becomes available at a site (& student group), students will be admitted.

Care Services - Limiting Factors

Most of our sites begin the year very impacted by the demand for After School Child Care services. At sites that can accommodate more children we have expanded services. However, there are several limiting factors that impact our ability to offer care to all families that need spots. 

• 1) STAFF; The GUSD After School Program has grown tremendously in the last few years. The 2024-25 projections call for approximately 115 After School Staff members. 

Solutions

• 1) We have implemented a weekly group interview process to increase our candidate pool.