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Kids from lower economic families are more likely to end up in summer school.
JoElla Smyth, Edgewood Middle School principal and summer school coordinator, presented a report of summer school during the Warsaw Community Schools board meeting Tuesday.
Each session of the summer school program runs for 15 days, and usually are used as to catch students up with their studies.
In fourth to seventh grade, 79 percent of summer school students received free or reduced lunch.
Fifty-two percent of the students participating in summer school between fourth to seventh grades are Hispanic. WCS has a 20 percent Hispanic population, Smyth said.
“We discovered some things about the program that we need to change,”?she said
Smyth said she wants to begin making plans to make the program better for its demographics. She plans on instituting more training for staff to better help meet the needs of minority and low-income students.
Summer school has seen its share of successes, too, Smyth said.
