How we verify
How we verify every Miami school calendar by hand: what we promise, where the closure and break data comes from, and how we keep each date accurate and current.
What we promise
Every camp listing on School's Out! is reviewed before it goes public. Every school calendar entry has a source we can point to. If something's wrong, tell us and we'll fix it within 2 business days.
How verification actually works
We use an AI assistant (Claude) to research camps and parse school calendar PDFs. Then a human reviews the results before anything goes live. The AI is faster than a human; the human catches what the AI gets wrong. Both are necessary. Every parsed date is checked against the original source document, and a camp is only marked verified once a person has confirmed its dates, ages, and price against the camp's own website.
Where the data comes from
- Camps: Each camp's own website is the primary source. We capture the URL we pulled the data from. You can see it on every camp's detail page.
- School calendars: Miami-Dade County Public Schools — directly from the district's published PDF. Private schools — directly from each school's own PDF or website.
- What we don't verify: Sitter quality (we link to Care.com — they do their own background checks). Cruise pricing (it changes daily). Anything labeled "External" on our site.
Re-verification schedule
Every camp gets re-checked every 90 days. If a camp's website goes down or their hours change, we update the listing or flag it.
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