BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – School is back in session Monday morning for hundreds of students.
Children at Challenger 7 Elementary School in Brevard County will become the first in the district to start a year-round schedule, along with Wyomina Park Elementary School in Marion County.
This is part of a pilot program in Florida, with the hope to limit learning loss that happens during an extended summer break.
“We’re really excited that we’re going to have more wrap-around education,” said Victoria Hunt, principal of Wyomina Park Elementary.
The school is much busier than every other campus in the district because it is testing the year-round classes pilot program.
“By bringing them back a little earlier, we don’t have that type of learning loss,” she said.
The loss is called the “summer slide” and the goal of this new schedule is to keep learning fresh in students’ minds by shortening the extended break.
Students have 180 days of classes, the same as every other school, but instead of four quarters they are switching to a tri-semester schedule that’s spread out over the year.
“We still have the same amount of days they just break it up into small breaks.”
While there’s a shorter summer, students still have 12 weeks of vacation spread throughout the year.
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