Both schools qualify as area eligible, so all snacks are served free. Baltimore County has created an afterschool care program to help students improve their reading, writing, and math skills, and prepare them for the Maryland School Performance Program. The afterschool care program operates for three hours, four days a week, at four public schools. It provides a structured, safe environment for up to eighty children at each school, from the time they are dismissed at three o'clock, until their parents return from work. The program reaches out to parents and community organizations to become volunteers and partners.
Snack time plays a vital role in the success of the afterschool care program.
Nutritious snacks, prepared fresh daily, are served at four o'clock. Students look forward to snack time as a chance to visit with each other and talk over the day's events together. Grant funds for the afterschool care enrichment program are used for costs not covered by USDA reimbursements. The Bay Shore Community Learning Center provides children with a safe, positive alternative for afterschool hours. The center offers supervised educational and enrichment activities at a YMCA and at a community center for more than one hundred students, Monday through Friday, from two thirty to five o'clock.