After School Program

Welcome to the After School Program (ASP)! We look forward to a great 2024-25 school year of ASP with your children!

 

Please find important Fall Semester 2024 registration dates below:

The goal of our robust, mission-driven After School Program (ASP) is to further enrich and support TSC students through a variety of course offerings. Students in ASP are encouraged to pursue interests, reinforce new skills, socialize, explore, create and simply play in a supportive environment through a diverse array of hands-on experiences and recreation classes that support self-expression, intellectual stimulation and social engagement. Our After School Program functions as an extension of the school day and we consider it to be an invaluable resource for TSC families. 

Our lead teachers are affiliated with The School at Columbia (TSC) or specialized professionals hired by The School. Many classes in our After School Program are staffed by the same teachers your children work with during the school day, providing a sense of familiarity and continuity. One of the highlights of our program is our partnerships with community organizations that teach special programs both on and off-site. Past vendors have included Bloomingdale School of Music, Breakaway Hoops, Broadway Bound, Dazzling Discoveries, FunFit Kids, Juventus Academy, NYC Guitar School, Robofun, Roll America, Sugar Hill Museum, and many more!

Class offerings are vast and include diverse options to accommodate each child. A few of our most popular classes are Basketball FUNdamentals, Best Sports Class Ever, Chess (Beginners, Intermediate, & Advanced), Coding & Game Design, Engineering Adventures, Homework Help, Inline Skating & Skateboarding, Keyboard, Violin, & Voice for Children, Martial Arts, Minecraft, Musical Theater Builders, Pre-Robotics, Soccer and Athletic Enrichment, Tap Ballet, The Mystery of Magic, Tumbleweeds, and many more!

Some students in Grades 5-8 opt to enroll in The School’s Athletics Program, and then join their ASP course at the end of their season. Middle Division students (Grades 6-8) can also participate in Supervised Study Hall (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 3:45-5:30 pm) or Middle Division Clubs, which typically meet once weekly, 3:45-5:30 pm. Clubs can cover a range of subjects and interests, including visual arts, debate, gender identity, and The New Roar Times student newspaper.

ASP courses run for a full semester, either Fall or Spring. The Fall Semester runs from the second week of September through the third week of January, and the Spring Semester runs from the last week of January through the first week of June.

There is a two week add-drop period at the start of each ASP semester that allows families to trial classes before final registration. After this deadline, families will be billed for all registered courses. Families may still make changes after this two-week deadline, but they will be charged an additional administrative fee for any course they add to their child’s schedule and may incur the full cost of a class they drop.

Pricing for the program depends upon the tuition and aid a family receives and pays at the school. Families can choose to enroll their child in the program per semester for one day per week or up to all five days. Please feel free to contact billingteam@theschool.columbia.edu to find out more about after-school program pricing.

To support families in need of emergency childcare on a given day, ASP offers a one-day, drop-in service, Kidspace, for a fee of $30. Kidspace is a nurturing environment where students engage in play, reading, board games, or arts and crafts. Parents are encouraged to email asp@theschool.columbia.edu on the day they require emergency child care.