Kidstop School Age Care

Our program will only release your child to someone listed as “authorized” pick up on your account with the exception of the local authorities if necessary. Please remind all authorized pick-ups to bring identification. Program staff is required to ask for identification from anyone unfamiliar attempting to pick up a child. This policy is designed to protect your child. Authorized pickups must physically sign children out daily.

When dropping your child(ren) off, it is your responsibility to walk them into the building, sign them into the program on an iPad located at the program entrance. You are welcome to help them settle into a space or assist them as needed.

Each of our program sites has a family area with a dedicated student folder where we will communicate to you about various programming details, updates, and alerts. Please check your parent folder daily for up to date information related to your student's participation in our program. 

kidstop family and student terms PDF

All sites have a staff member as well as a doorbell at our secure program entrances. In order for us to accept legal responsibility for your child, you or an authorized adult or sibling over the age of 12 must sign your child in and out of the program daily using the iPad located at your program entrance. This procedure is designed to protect your child. Failure to sign your child in or out of the program may result in termination of services. Children may not sign themselves in or out of the program on the iPads (these are for adult use only who are authorized pickups). Make sure to bring your ID when picking up your child. Students will not be released to anyone without proper ID verification.

Our program will only release your child to someone listed as “authorized” pick up on your account with the exception of the local authorities if necessary. Please remind all authorized pick-ups to bring identification. Program staff is required to ask for identification from anyone unfamiliar attempting to pick up a child. This policy is designed to protect your child. Authorized pickups must physically sign children out daily.

When dropping your child(ren) off, it is your responsibility to walk them into the building, sign them into the program on an iPad located at the program entrance. You are welcome to help them settle into a space or assist them as needed.

kidstop family and student terms and conditions pdf

Each of our program sites has a family area with a dedicated student folder where we will communicate to you about various programming details, updates, and alerts. Please check your parent folder daily for up to date information related to your student's participation in our program. 

All sites have a staff member as well as a doorbell at our secure program entrances. In order for us to accept legal responsibility for your child, you or an authorized adult or sibling over the age of 12 must sign your child in and out of the program daily using the iPad located at your program entrance. This procedure is designed to protect your child. Failure to sign your child in or out of the program may result in termination of services. Children may not sign themselves in or out of the program on the iPads (these are for adult use only who are authorized pickups). Make sure to bring your ID when picking up your child. Students will not be released to anyone without proper ID verification.

• Kidstop is a before and after school child care program, we provide a supportive, fun school-age education experience. Every aspect of what we do has your child in mind. Choice-based programming allows your child to make decisions about how they want to spend their time while in our program which can help develop leadership skills as well as confidence.

• Visit our website at www.kidstop279.org, click on register/manager your account, this is where you will be able to sign in or create an account if you have not done so. 
• Registration opens on Tuesday March 11, 2025 at 6 a.m.

• Basswood Elementary, Cedar Island Elementary, Edinbrook Elementary, Elm Creek Elementary, Fernbrook Elementary, Oak View Elementary, Rice Lake Elementary, Rush Creek Elementary, Weaver Lake: A Science, Technology & Math School & Woodland Elementary.

• If your student attends school at Palmer Lake Elementary, Park Brook Elementary, Fair Oaks Elementary, Garden City Elementary & Zanewood Community: A STEAM School, care is available at Edinbrook Elementary. 
  • You would need to register your contract for Edinbrook Elementary, and Kidstop will coordinate transportation between their attending school and Edinbrook. Drop off and pick up would be at Edinbrook Elementary.
• If your student attends Birch Grove School for the Arts or Weaver Lake: A Science, Technology & Math School students can attend any location because of magnet school. 
• Registering for care at one of these locations, requires you to register for a consistent contract.

• The staff to student ratio is 1:15.

• Kidstop opens at 6:30 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m.

• Yes, Kidstop is open on most non-school days, you can register for these days under your current contract. These requests remain pending until the approve by date, which is 2 weeks prior to the non-school date. You must have an accepted contract to attend non-school days. Please view our NSD Calendar for dates and deadlines.

• Breakfast & Afternoon snack are provided at Kidstop.
• On non-school days families must provide lunch for their student.

• Unfortunately, the Kidstop Program does not offer vacation/sick days, tuition is due regardless of attendance. We do not allow trading, swapping or banking days. 
• If you have a Pick Your Day contract you would want to make sure you are not scheduled for the days you will not be attending, this is a date specific contract with no minimum number of days required.
• If you have a Consistent Contract, you are required to have a minimum of 3 days a week, if you want to remove 2 days from your contract, you would need to submit a schedule change to do this. Once that is approved, you will then need to submit another schedule change to add those days back to your schedule.

• Yes, Kidstop accepts child care assistance through your county, please email us a copy of your determination letter to cecares@district279.org.

• We invoice weekly on Thursday and your payment is processed with your auto payment on Monday for that week of care.
• Child Care Assistance families - We invoice for two weeks tuition to coincide with the billing that we receive from the county.  We invoice every other Monday for the past two weeks and payment is due on Friday.

• Pick Your Day - This is a variable schedule. Choose the exact dates for programming periods (AM or PM) in a given period of time.  Pick Your Day Contracts will not be accepted until two weeks prior to the date you pick it to start. No minimums.
• Consistent Schedule - Fixed schedule from week to week. Minimum of 3 days per week (AM and/or PM) are required.
• Non-school day only contract - This is an option for families who will only need care on non-school days.

• Yes, the registration fee is $35 if your contract is submitted by May 27, registration requests after May 27 will have a $45 registration fee per student, this is charged once your contract is accepted.

• If you decide to withdraw your contract after it has been accepted, there is a $35 withdrawal fee, per student. You will want to submit your withdrawal request by the weekly deadline of Wednesday 11:59 p.m. for it to take effect the following Monday by submitting a withdrawal at www.osseo.ce.eleyo.com. Contracts must end on a Friday.

• Contracts are reviewed in the order they are submitted.
• Contracts will remain pending until the week of April 28, 2025, at this time we will begin accepting contracts in the order they are submitted based on our current staffing levels. This will continue to change as new staff are hired into the program, if needed, waiting list communication will be sent the week of July 28, 2025 if your contract has not been accepted by that week.

• Your student must be enrolled in and attending an Elementary school within the Osseo Area school district to attend that Kidstop location

• Your student must be enrolled in Kindergarten - 5th Grade to attend Kidstop.

• The Kidstop program does not provide transportation.