After School Program

At 2:30 pm each school day, our students leave the Honickman Learning Center/Comcast Technology Labs and travel with their teachers to the Martin Luther King Recreation Center. Here they begin another three hours of academic, artistic and creative enrichment, facilitated by CPS After School staff and designed to round out the CPS educational experience.

Besides the requisite snack, crafts and free play, the CPS After School program includes many education enhancing activities. Once a week students are instructed in martial arts, African drumming and dance, and ballet. They walk to the local library and science center for educational programs. They even spend six weeks in the fall at the local YMCA learning to swim, and participate in weekly tennis lessons led by staff at the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center.  

The after-school program and its combination of rich activities deepen our students’ overall learning experience and provide exposure to a range of possibilities that feed their curiosity.