Rec Plus School Age Childcare

Rec Plus provides school-age childcare for children in grades K-6. Rec Plus operates before school, after school, school release days, and summer. Children are required to be at least 5 years old, no older than 12 years old and have completed kindergarten to enroll in summer Rec Plus.  

REC PLUS REGISTRATION for available locations are listed below. If a site or waitlist is at capacity it will not be listed. 

All contracts will remain in pending status (waitlist) until contracts are accepted, no registration is guaranteed due to the volume received. 

Please do not make two different parent accounts for siblings for the site location.  They will not link together if not on same parent account. Siblings that are registered within 30 minutes of each other at same location on same account will get sibling preference if space allows. 

Rec Plus new client registration dates follow a priority registration period for currently enrolled school year families. Due to this, some sites may go right to a waitlist when registration opens to new clients. 

Prior to registration opening, see Preview of Registration for helpful hints.

For FAQ, please see the link at the bottom of any arux page or click  here.

MIIC Option for Submitting Immunization Records VaxCheck Program Consent Form

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School Year

School year 2026-2027 registration is open.   Two day per week minimum requirement.  The MPS bus zones can be found here. 

Tentative 2026-2027 School Year MPS bus zone variances are: Cityview School to Webber Rec Plus, Hiawatha/Howe Schools to 40th Street Rec Plus, Loring School to Webber Rec Plus, Pillsbury to Audubon Rec Plus. Please check with MPS transportation to confirm this. 

Rec Plus is able to enroll children from citywide MPS Magnet Schools (and private/charter schools) with a school end time between 2:00-3:10pm at the following afternoon Rec Plus sites: Audubon, Armatage, Harrison, Lynnhurst, Matthews, 40th Street, Webber and Windom NE.

The following are suggested pairings for MPS Magnet Schools with early dismissal times:

Ella Baker	Lynnhurst or 40th Street Rec Plus
Emerson	Lynnhurst or 40th Street Rec Plus
Las Estrellas	Audubon Rec Plus

School Release Days (SRD) are available for currently enrolled school year participants and (NEW this year) 2026 summer only families.   Registration for Fall SRD (9/21, 10/14, 10/15, 10/16, 11/13, & 11/25) is Monday, August 3rd at noon.  

*Rec Plus is closed on Labor Day, Election Day, Thanksgiving & Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, MLK Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth and July 4th Observed Day. School release day or summer care is not offered on these days. 

There is a contract fee of $30 per season per child; (school year and summer). This fee is non-refundable and charged at acceptance of your contract. See the Rec Plus Participant Handbook for all procedures:  www.minneapolisparks.org/recplushandbook.

For questions email recplus@minneapolisparks.org or call 612-230-6498

Waitlists do not carry over from year to year. You must re-apply each season if you are on the waitlist. If you are no longer interested being on the waitlist, please withdraw your contract.  If you are on the waitlist and a spot opens, you will be accepted and receive confirmation from Arux.

Arux account balance must be up to date to submit a registration request.