The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) are small learning centers for kindergarten and high school students in grades 9-12 with different learning opportunities between primary school and high school.

Our emerging Kindergarten students have the opportunity to enroll in our 21st CCLC Summer Enrichment Program designed for students who have not received pre-kindergarten experiences or would like to be introduced to the formal school setting before the first day of Kindergarten. This is a 5-week program where students learn the basics needed for Kindergarten such as numbers, letters, mathematics, science enrichment, socialization, and acclimation to riding the bus. This program is free to our students and transportation with a bus matron is provided by the school district.   

Rising Kindergarten Summer Readiness Program 
21st Century Community Learning Centers
Exciting Opportunity to Attend FREE Kindergarten Summer Readiness Program

This is a FREE Program for math, literacy, and social and academic enrichment, made possible through a 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant.   

Duration: 5-week program that typically starts the first or second week in July
Program Hours: 9 AM to 11:30 AM
Program Days: Monday through Friday

21st Century Community Learning Centers
Fall and Spring Afterschool Enrichment Program

FREE Grant-funded, after-school program for math, literacy, and social and academic enrichment.
Hours: 2:30 PM to 5 PM, Days: Monday-Tuesday or Wednesday-Thursday
The program starts in the first week of October.
Student transportation is provided by the program. 

Please note any child who participated in the program over the summer is automatically selected for the after-school program.

Walt Whitman High School 
The SOAR Program and Whitman Recovery
21st Century Community Learning Centers

The SOAR program is an afterschool program for our 9th and 10th-grade students who need additional assistance with their academics in the first semester of the school year. Courses in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and Spanish are offered starting in September through January. Students are recommended for the SOAR program by their teachers, guidance counselors, or by parent/student requests. This is a free program for all South Huntington students with transportation home provided by the district. The program consists of three periods of instruction if needed and meets between 2:15 PM - 5:00 PM.

Whitman Recovery is an afterschool program similar to the SOAR program but is for all high school students and enables students to make up classwork, seat time, missed assignments, and Regents review. A writing lab is associated with this program and runs during the student's regularly scheduled after-school courses. This is a free program for all South Huntington students with transportation home provided by the district. The program consists of three periods of instruction if needed and meets between 2:15 PM - 5:00 PM.

Western Suffolk BOCES Outdoor Education program has partnered with the 21st CCLC programs in providing outdoor education and enrichment to our elementary and high school students. Students will experience traveling around the solar system in our portable Star Lab/Planetarium, look at the various life forms found in our local estuaries, and have the opportunity to learn about and experience a variety of mammalian and reptilian wildlife. WSBOCES Outdoor Education program pushes into high school and elementary classes during their regularly scheduled after-school course times.

For more information regarding the 21st CCLC Programs, please call or email:                                                     

Kenneth J. Costa, Jr.
Supervisor of Administrative Services
Director of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers
James T. Kaden Administrative Offices
60 Weston Street
Huntington Station, NY 11746
(631) 812-3124
kcosta@shufsd.org

For our Spanish-speaking families, please contact Ms. Cecilia Blanco, Coordinator of ENL programs at 631-812-3127.