Kidstop School Age Care

Students will engage in choice-based programming and choose how they want to spend their day. We provide indoor and outdoor learning offerings and spaces, weekly themes along with special on site events such as water days and wheels days and enriching daily activities that provide structure and self-directed projects that include:

○ Social skill learning
○ Leadership oppportunities
○ Community service outreach
○ Relationship building
○ Importance of play, creating healthy development
○ Teamwork  challenges
○ Health and wellness including physical activity
○ Music, art and drama activities
○ Science technology engineering, art, math (STEAM)
○ Literacy opportunities and experiences
○ Field trips

• Visit osseoschools.arux.app and click on the Sign-in button. If you do not have an account with Osseo Area Schools' Community Education programs, select the Sign-in button and then the Create one now hyperlink.
• Registration opened on Tuesday March 3, 2026 at 6 a.m.

Kidstop Summer 2026 (kindergarten to fifth grade) registration opened online March 3, 2026 at 6 a.m. The program will begin accepting contracts on March 20, this process will continue in the coming weeks, as additional staff are hired into the program, more contracts will be accepted. If your contract is still pending by May 8, waitlist communication will be emailed to you. Waitlist communication will not be available until May 8.. Field Trip information will be available on April 3. Questions? Email cecares@district279.org or call 763-585-7281. 

Summer Kidstop 2026 will start on Friday June 12, 2026 and the last day is Friday August 21, 2026, Monday through Friday. The program is closed in observance of holidays on June 19 and July 3.

Drop off as early as 6:30 a.m. and pick up by 6 p.m. 

• Basswood Elementary School
• Oak View Elementary School
• Weaver Lake: A Science, Technology & Math School (this location has reach capacity and has a wait list). 
• Woodland Elementary School

Yes, the registration fee is $35 if your contract is submitted by March 17, registration requests after March 17 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. If you choose to withdraw your contract after the May 1 summer commitment deadline, you are responsible for the 20 day minimum and withdrawal fee, equaling $1,075.00.

Pick exactly which days you want for the entire summer. Pricing listed is per day. There is a 20 day minimum required for our summer program, drop in days do not count towards your 20 day minimum. We do not allow swapping, trading, moving, banking or sick days in our program.

• Summer Kidstop  has a 20-day minimum, the daily rate is $52 a day, per student. When registering for your contract, it will require you to select 20 days to have on your schedule. If your contract is accepted, you will have until May 1, to adjust your dates, this is the summer commitment deadline.
• Drop in days are available to request after the May 1 commitment deadline, the rate is $60 per day and is accepted/denied based on the student to staff ratio of the day you are requesting.

No, your student does not need to attend Osseo Area Schools to attend Summer Kidstop.

No, they do not. Field trip costs are included in your student’s tuition.

Kidstop staff are not trained special education professionals and are not equipped to deliver specialized services. However, we are dedicated to supporting students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and fostering an inclusive and accommodating environment while operating within our scope of expertise and available resources.

May 1 is the summer commitment deadline for accepted contracts. Any changes made to your contract before May 1 at 11:59 p.m. include:

• Unlimited contract changes including adding or removing days with no fees attached (minimum of 20 days required for a summer contract).
• Summer Contracts can be withdrawn by this date to avoid a withdrawal fee of up to $1,075

Any changes made after the May 1 at 11:59 p.m. deadline include:

• Withdrawing from the program will result in a $35.00 withdrawal fee per child along with paying for the 20 day minimum requirement of $1,040 per child.
• Add any additional days for $60.00 per day. Adding days is not guaranteed due to space and programming availability. Drop in days need to be added by entering it in through the online registration by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m., prior to the week attending. Drop in days do not count towards your 20 day minimum.
• Cancel days for a fee of $35.00 per child per email request. Canceling a day requires email notification to be sent to CECares@district279.org by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. prior to the affected week. Days cannot be canceled if it reduces your contract under the 20 day minimum, drop in days do not count towards your minimum.
• If your contract is still pending after the May 1 deadline, families will be given the opportunity to adjust their dates at the time of accepting the contract.

We do not allow swapping, trading, moving, banking or sick days in our program. Your tuition is due regardless of your students' attendance.

The Summer Kidstop program offers breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack for the students.

No. The Summer Kidstop program does not offer transportation.

Students need to be entering kindergarten through fifth grade the upcoming 2026-27 school year or be at least 5 years old to be eligible for the program. Students who are going into sixth grade, or 4-year-olds, including students enrolled in prekindergarten for the upcoming school year, are not eligible for Summer Kidstop.

Summer construction will be taking place at many locations over the summer, communication will be sent out as needed around construction happening.

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 10, 2026 at 6 a.m.

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

If your student attends school at Birch Grove School for the Arts, Palmer Lake Elementary, Park Brook Elementary, Fair Oaks Elementary, Garden City Elementary & Zanewood Community: A STEAM School, care will be available at one of our HUB locations.  If you have questions regarding which HUB site to register for, please contact the business office at cecares@district279.org or 763-585-7281.

• 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 typically 2 weeks prior to the non-school date (with the exception of school break dates), these weeks the deadline is earlier. You must have an accepted contract to attend non-school days. Please view our non-school day calendar for registration and cancel by deadlines, this information is communicated in the weekly email from your Kidstop location.

Kidstop staff are not trained special education professionals and are not equipped to deliver specialized services. However, we are dedicated to supporting students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and fostering an inclusive and accommodating environment while operating within our scope of expertise and available resources.

• 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. The schedule change fee is $10 each request, each student.

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 .

• 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 26, registration requests after May 26 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 first week in May, 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 first week of August if your contract has not been accepted by this time.

Your student must be enrolled in and attending an elementary school in Osseo Area Schools to attend that Kidstop location.

Your student must be enrolled in kindergarten through fifth grade to attend Kidstop.

The Kidstop program does not provide transportation unless you are receiving care at one of our HUB sites. Transportation would be between the HUB site you are registered at and your enrolled school. If you have questions regarding which HUB site to register for, please contact the business office at cecares@district279.org or 763-585-7281.