Summer 2026 Camp Fee Schedule
June 15-August 21, 2026
5-15 Days
16-35 Days
36-50 Days
After Camp Starts
Our Tax ID number is 45-4376774.
Every one of our invoices from your purchases online contain our Tax ID number at the bottom for your convenience. We can also provide you a statement that details out all of the charges and payments from your child’s time at our camp. Please email our Account Manager with the Camper’s name along with the term for which you’d like the statement and she’ll get that information to you.
Yes, you can pick-up your camper early at any time. We ask that you follow these procedures:
- Pick-up times are from 3-5:30pm. Any time prior to 3pm is considered an “Early Pick-up.”
- If you are picking-up your camper early, you need to schedule this in advance by emailing our staff or calling 608-712-7412 (during camp hours).
- Once you have arrived at camp to pick-up your child, you need to call the camp phone at 608-712-7412. Please wait by the normal pick-up location and an adult will walk your child up to your car.
- If you wish to pick-up your camper early on a day when they are on a field trip, you will need to come to the location of the field trip to pick-up your camper. You can organize this by emailing our staff or calling 608-712-7412 (during camp hours).
- If you have contacted your child on their personal device, you still need to make sure that you have made eye-contact or have spoken to an employee of A Step Ahead prior to leaving with your child.
- All campers will be assisted by an A Step Ahead employee while checking-out. Check out is not complete until you have made visual eye-contact with an employee of A Step Ahead Day Camp.
Visit our How to Enroll page for the links to all the items we’ll need for your registration.
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- Complete a Registration Questionnaire for EACH CHILD you are registering for camp this year and provide a copy of their immunization records.
- Pick the dates you’d like to have your child enrolled in camp.
- Let us know how you will be paying for tuition:
- Pay in person (or by mail)
- Pay in full
- Create an Installment Plan
- Pay the 7% down payment along with the registration fee of $75 per camper. Both items are non-refundable.
THE REGISTRATION FEE ALONE DOES NOT HOLD YOUR CAMPER’S SPOT! You have to complete the forms, pay the registration fee, make payment arrangements AND pick the dates your Camper will attend. If you selected the pay in person option, the 7% down payment is due immediately to hold your spot. Once camp dates have reached their capacity, you will not be able to enroll your Camper in those dates regardless of whether or not you’ve paid the registration fee.
Tuition includes:
- Morning and afternoon snacks
- Camp T-Shirt
- Weekly Field Trips
- All equipment and supplies needed during camp
Yes we do! We offer pre-pay discounts and reduced tuition for families with more than one child:
- Take 5% off when you pay in full before April 1st.
- Siblings: 5% off Second Child, 10% off Third, 15% off Fourth.
- Previous A Step Ahead Campers also receive a $25 discount on the registration fee .
We have three ways you can pay your tuition:
- Pay in full online – choose our pay now option and you’ll be directed to PayPal to process your payment. You can load your preferred payment into PayPal (credit card, checking or savings account, etc.). If you pay before April 1, you can save 5% off of your tuition.
- Installment plans – Tuition can be split into 4 payments. 7% will be due immediately to initiate the plan, then the remaining amount will be split into three payments which are due on June 1, July 1, and August 1. Our plans are administered via PayPal so when you checkout, you’ll be directed to PayPal and will need to authorize the future payments to be drawn on your account. Once the installment plan is setup, you should receive notices of when your payments will be drawn via email. Should any future payment not go thru, you will be notified by our Account Manager and will need to make a payment manually.
- Pay in Person – this option is for people who’d like to pay by paper check or cash. Make all checks payable to A Step Ahead Day Camp LLC and mail them to us at PO Box 293, Sun Prairie, WI 53590 or bring them your first day of camp. Please note: all cash or check payments will not be shown in your account online.
All registration fees are due upfront and are not refundable. Please be sure to read our cancellation policy for all our plans.
In order to pay in installments, you need be sure to choose the tuition that says “Installment Plan” on it. Our plans are administered via PayPal so when you checkout, you’ll be directed to PayPal and will need to authorize the future payments to be drawn on your account. Once the installment plan is setup, you should receive notices of when your payments will be drawn via email. Should any future payment not go thru, you will be notified by our Account Manager and will need to make a payment manually.
Please be sure to read our cancellation policy as these conditions also apply to installment plans where the payments are collected over time.
To make payments ahead of time or outside the dates of your installment agreement, simply go to the My Payments page on our website to view your open installment plans and make a payment. If you do not see a payment plan, please contact us to make sure you have one setup.
You can!
If you’d like to change dates, please visit our Change Dates page to process the change. Changes are free before camp starts. After camp starts, you will be charged $15 for each date change submission. Charges are non-refundable. All submissions are due by 5pm the Sunday before the week of camp you are changing.
If you’d like to add dates before camp starts, email our Account Manager. After camp starts, visit our Add Dates page. Day rates will be slightly higher once camp starts. All tuition is due up front and is not refundable.
Be advised, once a day’s enrollment is full, you cannot enroll into that date and once you’ve cancelled your date, your place is not saved in that old date should the limit on that date be reached. Be sure to view our cancellation policy as all of those rules still apply.
While we like to remain flexible for every family’s changing schedule, every time you make a change, we need to update our schedules and staff assignments. That takes time and materials and to that end, we charge $15 to compensate for that.
Help us remain flexible to our camp families.
Please register your child, pick their dates and pay the registration fee as soon as possible so that you can hold your place. Once we reach capacity for that day, you will no longer be able to choose that date to register or switch to that date. We pride ourselves on our flexibility but understand that we hire staff and arrange field trips based upon the number of campers in each age group BEFORE the start of camp. Please be considerate in your cancellations and let us know as soon as you can.
With that said, the following is our cancellation/change policy:
- All registration fees are NOT refundable.
- Please note: Campers who have paid a registration fee but have not selected dates and either paid in full or signed up for an installment plan are not fully registered and not guaranteed a spot at camp.
- Tuition will be refunded based upon the number of dates that were registered by May 31.
- Cancellations before May 31 will be refunded at 93%
- Cancellations June 1-10 will be refunded at 50%
- No cancellations will be allowed after June 10*
- *Extenuating circumstances such as a job relocation and family tragedy could potentially be eligible for cancellation and refund. Please contact us to request this exemption to our policy.
- If the camp is unable to open due to circumstances outside our control due to pandemic health restrictions (i.e. social distancing orders) registration fees and tuition will not be refunded.
- Any changes made to a Camper’s schedule (i.e. changing one date for another), will incur a charge of $15 per submission.
All delinquent payments are subject to a $25 late fee per occurrence.
Yes! Once camp has started, we will make dates available for purchase provided the max enrollment hasn’t been reached for that day. The cost for dates after camp has begun will be a flat rate per day and will also feature sibling discounts. Select the buy more dates option from the enrollment menu (once camp has started) to sign up for more dates.
Please note: If you want to CHANGE your dates do not purchase additional dates, please use the form on our Change Dates page.
No. Wisconsin Shares is a child care subsidy program that helps low-income working families in Wisconsin pay for child care, managed by the Department of Children and Families. A Step Ahead Day Camp does not accept Wisconsin Shares for payment. Please visit the Wisconsin Shares website for more information.