Our Programs
Margie’s Kids Kare offers a diverse range of activities, ensuring that each child can find something they truly enjoy and benefit from.
From promoting wellness through yoga to encouraging creativity with arts and crafts, there's something for everyone. Plus, the emphasis on choice-based and age-appropriate activities ensures that each child can participate at their own pace and according to their interests. It's wonderful to see a program that prioritizes both enrichment and engagement for children after school.
Afterschool Program: Our Afterschool Program offers a range of exciting and engaging activities tailored to support your child’s growth in performing arts, social-emotional development, martial arts, and wellness. Each activity is designed to be age-appropriate and enjoyable for all children, including those with special learning needs. What makes our program unique is our strong focus on partnering with families. We provide parent support trainings and host monthly Family Fun Nights, creating opportunities for families to connect and collaborate with us throughout the school year.
Summer Program: Starting each June, our Summer Enrichment Program offers a full season of exciting and choice-based activities. The summer program is designed to provide a variety of experiences that cater to your child’s individual interests, ensuring a summer full of enrichment and enjoyment. It’s a wonderful way for your child to explore new interests and make the most of their summer vacation.
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Choice-Based Enrichment
Students participate in a diverse array of activities—including performing arts, visual arts, yoga, martial arts, gardening, and social-emotional learning—that are age-appropriate, culturally responsive, and inclusive for students with disabilities or special learning needs. This approach ensures that all students discover meaningful opportunities for personal growth and enjoyment.
Academic Acceleration
Understanding the significance of bridging achievement gaps, MKK incorporates targeted literacy and math activities that connect to real-life scenarios, such as budgeting and marketing, into the afterschool program. These supports aim to strengthen foundational skills, foster confidence, and extend learning beyond the regular school hours.
Family and Community Partnerships
Families play a central role at MKK. We organize monthly Family Fun Nights, provide parent support workshops, and maintain open lines of communication to nurture trust, collaboration, and alignment between home and school.
Program Group Size
Maintaining an appropriate group size and adult-to-child ratio is crucial for ensuring the safety, well-being, and optimal development of children in any setting. Research consistently indicates that children thrive better in smaller environments with more individualized attention.
We recognize that the group size may vary from day to day due to factors such as changes in attendance or the nature of planned activities. However, regardless of the group size, we are committed to maintaining full supervision of the children at all times. Our dedicated staff members are trained to effectively manage and engage with children in both small and large group settings, ensuring their safety and well-being remain our top priority.
Program Sites
Achievement Prep PCS (Our Flagship Program)
Margie’s Kids Kare is proud to call Achievement Prep Public Charter School (PCS) in Southeast DC our flagship campus. Since launching this partnership in the summer of 2024, Achievement Prep has been instrumental in helping us expand our reach and deepen our impact within the community. As our anchor site, it serves as the foundation for delivering our full range of choice-based activities and enrichment programs, setting the model for high-quality, inclusive afterschool care.
Located in the heart of Southeast DC, Achievement Prep provides the perfect environment to connect with historically underserved youth and families, offering a safe, nurturing space where every child can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
This ongoing partnership is more than just a program location—it is a shared commitment to equity, excellence, and empowerment. Together, Margie’s Kids Kare and Achievement Prep PCS are building a flagship model that reflects our mission and paves the way for future sites across the District.
Meridian PCS
Margie’s Kids Kare is proud to partner with Meridian Public Charter School (PCS), located in the heart of Northwest DC. Serving a diverse and multilingual community, this partnership, launched in January 2025, reflects our shared commitment to creating inclusive, culturally responsive spaces where every child and family feels valued.
Through extended Wednesday programming during the school year and Summer Enrichment Programming with Meridian’s Discovery Camp, we deliver engaging, choice-based activities that foster social-emotional growth, creativity, and wellness. Together, we are building meaningful opportunities for learning and discovery while providing a safe, nurturing environment for one of DC’s most vibrant school communities.
Community Partners
Magic Spa Bus
MKK, we’re proud to partner with Magic Spa Bus, a Black-owned, youth-led mobile spa experience that’s redefining what it means to relax, recharge, and celebrate self-love!
Founded and operated by three inspiring African American teenagers and their powerhouse mom-manager, the Magic Spa Bus offers top-of-the-line manicures, pedicures, and creative experiences—all delivered with professionalism, cleanliness, and heart. Their mission? To teach youth the value of self-care, confidence, and positive self-esteem in a fun and empowering way.
The BasKIDS Foundation
The mission of The BasKIDS Project is to grow a generation of readers by providing reading materials, promoting literacy and encouraging positive social engagement in our community.
We hope to curve the achievement gap for low-income youth through providing reading materials for the home. We collect donations from our community and create baskets especially crafted for children, and donate them to shelters, hospitals and underfunded educational programs in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area. We give the themed baskets filled with books and educational materials to encourage reading activity outside of school.
Karee Bakery
Karee Payton, the creative hands and heart behind BaKaree Sweets, LLC. What started as a hobby in her kitchen quickly grew into a passion for edible art that brings joy to every occasion.
BaKaree Sweets, LLC specialize in custom sugar cookies and celebration cakes that not only look stunning but taste just as good. From baby and bridal showers, birthdays, retirements, and corporate events, I love crafting cookies and cakes that are as memorable as the moments they celebrate. For me, baking isn’t just about sweets but about celebrating life’s milestones and making people smile, one cookie or slice of cake at a time