Calculate the Cost of High-Quality After School Programs

If you want out-of-school time programming that is high quality and you need to know how to budget for it, this Web site can help.

This online calculator lets you determine the costs of a variety of options for high-quality out-of-school time (OST) programs. With other resources on this site, it can help you make informed decisions so you can plan for programming in which children flourish.

Calculate the cost for high-quality OST programs

Keeping doors open and children safe is the primary duty of any OST program. But as public funding of OST programming has increased in recent years, so has the public’s expectation that programs will also do more than that. This calculator will help you budget for programming that aims high: to cultivate children’s talents, lift their self-confidence, improve their social skills, increase their engagement with school—or decrease the likelihood of risky behavior.

Providing such programming may entail expenses such as staff training or equipment purchases. So, like a student loan or mortgage calculator, this calculator lets you know what questions to ask, gives you an easy-to-understand analysis of the data you enter and offers ideas and resources to further your work.

The calculator’s cost estimates come from the most detailed study to date on the costs of high-quality OST programs. You may wonder why this work is important to The Wallace Foundation and how it fits with our other work on OST. Find out why.