Start by submitting an application. Here’s a link to the form!
Open to any TK-6 student, including BUSD, OUSD, WCCSD, independent school, and homeschooled students.
Spanish classes, arts and crafts activities, games, free play, time for homework, and snacks! PE and movement classes take place on Mondays and Wednesdays. Team sports (grades 4/5-8) offered Tuesdays and Thursdays. Older students have access to a quiet space for supervised homework time Mondays and Thursdays. Additional optional enrichment classes by external providers (ex. judo, chess, gymnastics, cooking, carpentry, STEM, robotics, etc.) are available for an extra cost.
The Berkeley School is located at 1310 University Avenue, in the heart of Berkeley. We will have excursions into Strawberry Creek as weather/schedule permits.
The Depot staff meets Oxford Elementary students at their school and walk them up to The Berkeley School’s University Avenue Campus.
Other families are responsible for arranging transportation on their own. We encourage carpools, parenting adults taking turns leading walking groups, and taking kids on public transportation—a useful life skill! AC Transit lines 51 and 52 stop nearby and we are closest to the North Berkeley BART station.
BUSD may be able to provide transportation from BUSD elementary schools but HopSkipDrive and KangoApp are alternatives if your child needs transport to TBS. More information here.
The Depot program follows the BUSD academic calendar, which runs from August 13, 2025 to June 4, 2026. Depending on your student’s dismissal time, hours are 1:20-6, 2:20-6, or 3:20-6.
This is the table for proposed costs for the full academic year from August 13 to June 4:
TBS is committed to meeting the demand for high quality after-school programming by opening our campus to TK-6th grade students in our community. The Depot offers plentiful opportunities for free play, snacks, arts and crafts, and Spanish classes.
Please email your questions to thedepot@theberkeleyschool.org!
A $60 registration/administrative fee is added to the cost.
For $125 a day from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., we offer care for BUSD days off: 10/6, 10/31, 1/26, 2/13, 3/16, and 5/15.
The Berkeley School’s domed building, built in 1904 as the Santa Fe Depot, is a City of Berkeley historic landmark: a locus of arrivals and departures, connection and change. It’s a well-known landmark on University Avenue and it embodies our welcome of the broader community into The Berkeley School. The Depot supports participants through their individual and collective journey of growth in developmentally appropriate, engaging, and inclusive ways!
Please email us at thedepot@theberkeleyschool.org for more information about our programming and fees.
