Boys & Girls Club of Sparta Inc.

Our ultimate goal is for every child to grow, be healthy and happy, graduate high school, and be successful in pursuit of their chosen occupation!

Our strategies include healthy lifestyles training, physical training, academic training, and socialization skills...with the result being development of great citizens in our community!

We are very capable of meeting our goals, with caring, responsible staff members that relate to the children one on one. Many of our tutors have academic teaching credentials, and it is a joy to see their efforts result in higher test scores in the schools! We have police officers on our Board of Directors, and they serve on some of our safety and event committees as well...so we have a great relationship with the local police department. We have access to indoor gymnasiums, a wonderful games room, and several parks and playgrounds...so fun is always easy to find! We have kitchen facilities, and regularly offer cooking classes for healthy treats...and we have a snack bar where the children have access to hot foods instead of relying on vending machine snacks. We have a computer lab, tablets, and a learning center with more computer access, which our members use for homework, age appropriate games, music, and even achievement testing through the Wisconsin After 3 program. We also provide virtual learning support for students to help them stay on track during school closings due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

From a small, core group of forward-thinking adults looking for something better for kids to do after school, to an organization that regularly sees well over 100 children every day after school and has 5 outreach sites in our schools, we have become well-known in Sparta for our fun and safe programs! We reach other youth as well, through our annual House of Shadows haunted house, which has a large number of community volunteers, and our interaction with the Challenge Academy, where cadets who show success earn the right to become Cadet Buddies for our kids. The annual Sparta Stampede brings out around 500 runners/walkers every year. As our programs continue to grow and develop, we are beginning to stretch our building at the seams. What's next? Continued growth will ultimately require additional space, and since we do not own our building, that will require a plan for a new location someday...but for right now, we are starting up the Future Forward program in our schools!