Associated Recreation Council

Childcare: low cost out of school care, preschool, and summer day camp. Among other accomplishments, arc continues to raise the standard for our preschool programs with a creative curriculum; in the same vein, we continue to incorporate the higher standards of sapqa (school age program quality assessment) initiative in our school-age care programs.

The preschool program became a stand-alone program on 1/1/17. There are four preschool programs across the system where four of those programs have become licensed programs through spp (seattle preschool program), and two of the programs became pathways programs through deel (department of education and early learning) during 2024. Spp offers free preschool as a school readiness program for families who have economic barriers to enrolling.