ACES School Age Child Care

LAST UPDATED 11/24/2020

ACES will be providing childcare during the 2020-21 school year in all three learning scenarios. All families registered for Mankato Area Public Schools grades K-5 are eligible for ACES.

Distance Learning School Age Care
Full day care (6:30am-6:00pm) at select locations starting 11/23/20 until further notice from MAPS. This school age care option will only be offered when MAPS is under the Distance Learning method of school delivery for elementary students. Locations of care are determined by the child's home elementary location.

• Eagle Lake (serves Eagle Lake families)
• Franklin (serves Franklin, Washington & Kennedy families)
• Hoover (serves Hoover, Monroe & Bridges families)
• Rosa Parks (serves Rosa Parks, Jefferson & Roosevelt families)

Note for Families that Qualify as Tier 1
Tier 1 families may qualify for free child care during the school hours (8:00am-2:30pm). Tier 1 registrations will go through an employment verification process. Please note that qualifications for Tier 1 employment have changed since earlier this year. 

[UPDATED 11/05/20]: The school-age care for children of critical workers is intended for extreme circumstances in which no parent or guardian is at home, as all of the parents or legal guardians in the child’s household are Tier I critical workers. If it is a two-parent household and one is not a critical worker, a school is not required to provide free school-age care to the family, but the school could choose to provide the care, if they have the capacity to do so while ensuring health and safety requirements can still be met. School districts and charter schools may also encourage parents or legal guardians of Eligible Children to not utilize the school-age care program if they have the ability to work from home.

If Tier 1 families need care beyond 8am-2:30pm, they can opt for AM and/or PM care (fee for service).

If the FREE service is not utilized after 5 consecutive days, registration will be removed to help control staffing needs and/or provide a space to a family in need of child care (excluding approved absent days or if someone is out due to illness or quarantine).

Non School Day Care
Full day care (6:30am-6:00pm) at select locations. Separate registration will be required. 

Future Scheduled Non School Days:
December 23, 28, 29 & 30; January 18 & 29; March 19 & 31; April 1

In Person/Hybrid School Age Care

Families with a contract for In Person/Hybrid before and/or after school care will resume their contract once MAPS moves back into that model of learning. Families will NOT incur fees while MAPS is under a Distance Learning model for all students.

ONLINE REGISTRATION

Please be aware that we will ONLY be accepting online registrations. If you do not have access to a computer or internet, we will have Chromebooks available for families to use at the ACES Billing Office. Any paper registrations submitted to our office via email, mail, fax, or in person will not be accepted.

Distance Learning School Age Care
Registration for Distance Learning is currently closed. Please contact our office at 507-387-5501 to be added to our waiting list. 

Non School Day Care
Registration is currently open for all future scheduled non school days. 

Registrations will be accepted until the deadline OR until the site's maximum capacity has been reached. If the site is full, parents/guardians will be notified by the ACES Billing Office and the child(ren) will be added to the waiting list for that site. 

Families will receive as many absent days as they are contracted to attend each week. For example, a family scheduled to attend (5) days per week will receive (5) absent days per child for the Distance Learning School Age Care session. Once an absent day request has been approved and processed it is final.  Absent days cannot be transferred to the In Person/Hybrid season. Individual circumstances related to COVID-19 exposure will be considered on a case by case basis.

Absent day request forms can be submitted at ANY time and will result as a credit on your account. 

*Families that receive county assistance must submit absent day requests for a future date of care due to county billing cycles. 

Absent day request form

School year 2020-2021 Parent Handbook

ACES COVID-19 Preparedness Plan

ACES will be open at select locations for full day care on all scheduled non school days. A separate registration is required. 

ACES will provide a light breakfast, afternoon snack and milk at lunch time. Children will need to bring a bag lunch, tennis shoes, and weather appropriate clothing for outdoor play.

Daily Fee: $30.00 per child, per day

Non School Day Locations:

ACES has expanded the number of locations for scheduled non school days! Locations of care are determined by your child’s home elementary building. Students will be grouped based on home elementary building. 

• Eagle Lake (serves Eagle Lake students)
• Franklin (serves Eagle Lake, Washington & Kennedy students)
• Hoover (serves Hoover, Monroe & Bridges students)
• Rosa Parks (serves Rosa Parks, Jefferson & Roosevelt students)

Program Hours:  6:30 am - 6:00 pm

Remaining Scheduled Non School Days:

• December 23, 28, 29 & 30 

• January 18 & 29

• March 19 & 31 

• April 1