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Seattle Public Schools offers full-day kindergarten, which provides young learners the time they need to engage in learning and build the social and academic skills they need to support learning throughout their education.  Research shows that children participating in developmentally appropriate, full-day kindergarten make greater gains both socially and academically.

However, Washington state only provides school districts with enough funding to pay for half day kindergarten.  To make full day kindergarten available at all Seattle Schools, the district must recover the costs for the non-funded portion of the kindergarten day by charging families a fee- 2013-2014 the fee is proposed is $3,110 or $311 for 10 months.  Click here for additional information