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2025-2026 Extended Day Program Quick Links

 

Registration for the 2025-2026 School Year 

 

NEW STUDENT REGISTRATION for incoming prekindergarten through grade 5 students:

  • Registration for NEW STUDENTS opens on Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM and closes at 11:59 PM on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.  
  • Registration is online via Google Form. Links to the school-specific NEW STUDENT registration forms and full details regarding registration can be found in the 2025-2026 New Student Before School and Extended Day Program Informational Smore linked here.
  • Registration is not first come, first served. A lottery for enrollment for NEW STUDENTS will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025.    
  • Families will be notified via email on or before Friday, May 30, 2025  if their student is being offered a confirmed space or if they were waitlisted.
  • Registrations received after the May 21, 2025, deadline will be added to the waitlist on a first come, first serve basis behind students who were waitlisted as a result of the lottery for enrollment.
  • There is a one-time registration fee of $100.00 per child to activate your student’s registration.  Registration fees are due after the lottery for enrollment takes place.  You will receive instructions on how to submit your registration fee when you receive your student’s enrollment lottery results.  The registration fee does not go towards the cost of tuition.
  • If, following the lottery for enrollment, your student is offered a space in the 2025-2026 Before School and/or Extended Day Program their first full month’s tuition payment will be due by Friday, June 6, 2025, to confirm and secure their enrollment.  Registration fees are also due by this date.  Payment instructions will be emailed to families.

 

PRIORITY REGISTRATION for qualifying, incoming kindergarten through grade 5 students:

  • PRIORITY registration opens on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, and closes at 11:59 PM on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.  PRIORITY registration status will not be honored for any students who are registered after April 15, 2025.
  • If the number of PRIORITY student registrations received exceeds the total program capacity and/or the capacity of a single grade/age grouping, a lottery for PRIORITY enrollment will be held on Wednesday April 16, 2025, and families will receive an email notifying them if their student is being offered a space or has been waitlisted on or before Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
  • PRIORITY registration is offered to the following students:
    • RETURNING STUDENTS - Students actively enrolled in the 2024-2025 Before School and/or Extended Day Program as kindergarten through grade 5 students at the time of 2025-2026 priority registration (4/1/25 - 4/15/25).  *Students enrolled in the 2024-2025 PreKindergarten Extended Day Program are not eligible for priority enrollment as incoming 2025-2026 kindergarten students.
    • SIBLINGS OF RETURNING STUDENTS - Students entering kindergarten through grade 5 for the 2025-2026 school year who have one or more siblings who are actively enrolled in the 2024-2025 Before School and/or Extended Day Program as kindergarten through grade 5 students at the time of 2025-2026 priority registration (4/1/25 - 4/15/25).  *Students entering PreKindergarten in the 2025-2026 school year are not eligible for sibling priority.
    • PREVIOUSLY WAITLISTED STUDENTS: Students who were registered as kindergarten through grade 5 students for the 2024-2025 school year Before School and/or Extended Day Program during the initial new student registration period (6/3/24 - 6/23/24), AND whose registration fee to activate their waitlist status was paid by the initial deadline of July 22, 2024, AND who remain active on the 2024-2025 Before School and/or Extended Day Program waitlist at the time of 2025-2026 priority registration (4/1/25 - 4/15/25).  Students who were previously waitlisted for the 2024-2025 PreK Extended Day Program are not eligible for 2025-2026 priority registration.
    • STUDENTS OF WPS EMPLOYEES - Students entering kindergarten through grade 5 in the 2025-2026 school year whose parent and/or legal guardian is an active employee of Watertown Public Schools at the time of 2025-2026 priority registration (4/1/25 - 4/15/25).  There is no priority available for students of WPS employees entering PreKindergarten in the 2025-2026 school year. 
  • School-specific Priority registration links can be found in the 2025-2026 Priority Registration Before School and Extended Day Program Informational Smore linked here.

 

2025-2026 General Program Information

The Extended Day Program is run by Watertown Community Education, a department of Watertown Public Schools (WPS).  This is an optional, fee-based program for WPS students in prekindergarten through grade 5.  There is an Extended Day Program location on-site at the Cunniff, Hosmer, and Lowell Elementary Schools.  The Extended Day Programs provide a safe, nurturing environment after school for students from 2:30 PM to 6:00 PM each day.  The Extended Day Programs are not academic programs.  These are social and play-based programs offering students a schedule of activities each day that includes a balance of structured and unstructured time.  The programs offer arts and crafts, movements activities, group-based activities that are both student- and teacher-led, and free playtime with a variety of toys and materials.  Students enrolled in the Extended Day Program will spend time outdoors daily, weather permitting.  The Program offers additional enrichments for enrolled students during conference days and early release days.

 

 

2025-2026 Program Hours

K-5 Before School Program - 7:15 AM - 8:05 AM 

Students can be dropped off anytime within these hours  

 

PreK-5 Extended Day Program - 2:30 PM - 6:00 PM  

Students can be picked up anytime during these hours

 

2025-2026 Enrollment Schedules

Before School Program (Open to students in kindergarten through grade 5)

5 day per week enrollment (only registration option)

 

Extended Day Program (Open to students in prekindergarten through grade 5)

5 day per week enrollment

3 day per week enrollment (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays)

2 day per week enrollment (Tuesdays and Thursdays)

*No exceptions can be made to the days included in these enrollment options.

*Priority will be given to registrations for 5 day per week enrollment.

 

2025-2026 Tuition Rates & Payment Schedules

2025-2026 Before School and Extended Day Program Tuition Rates (click here to view the tuition rates)

  • The annual tuition is paid on a monthly basis and is broken down into 10-equal monthly payments.
  • The first month’s tuition, Payment #1 (for September) is due in advance to secure and confirm your student’s enrollment.  The due date for this payment is included in your student’s space offer email.
  • Tuition Payments #2-#10 (for October through June) are due in advance, on the 10th of the month each month for the upcoming month.  If the 10th falls on a day that school is not in session, payment is due on the school day preceding the 10th. 
  • Since the tuition is broken down into 10-equal monthly tuition payments, the tuition amount remains the same each month, September through June, regardless of how many days the program actually runs each month.
  • Tuition will not be prorated due to absences, holidays, snow days, and/or any other days school is closed for any reason or a student is unable to attend.
  • Watertown Community Education does not offer scholarships or reduced rates based on income.  Child care vouchers are not accepted for these programs.

 

WHO TO CONTACT & WHERE TO FIND PROGRAM INFORMATION:

Where to find information about Watertown Community Education Programs:

Please check our Watertown Community Education Webpage for more information about our Before School and Extended Day Programs as well as other programs offered through our department at our website here.

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How to contact Watertown Community Education:

If you have any questions, please contact Debi Cornelius, Director of Community Education at debora.cornelius@watertown.k12.ma.us and Jeff Bodner, Assistant Director of Community Education at jeffrey.bodner@watertown.k12.ma.us