List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?

[Anonymous]

If anyone else has looked into this and has a list, could you share?
Or, is this info available on some charter/DCPS website?
TIA.

[Anonymous]

Haynes is. But it's not year-round in the way that I envisioned it--they start a couple of weeks earlier than DCPS and end at the same time, so it's really that they have some longer breaks than DCPS does in the fall and Spring.

[Anonymous]

I would find it very odd if there were truly 12-month public preschools.

[Anonymous]

EL Haynes & KIPP - there may be others

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EL Haynes & KIPP - there may be others

really?

[Anonymous]

Appletree has a summer program and so does Stokes.

[Anonymous]

summer program is not a year round school. If you count that, then you might as well call DCPS a year round school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EL Haynes & KIPP - there may be others

Um no. Kipp has a 4 week summer program.

[Anonymous]

Well, I don't know how long KIPP's summer program is - but their website says "mandatory summer school" starts in July. Is the summer school mandatory for ALL students, or just some? If it's mandatory for everyone, it's effectively a year round school, as most year round schools have breaks of about 6 weeks in the summer.

http://www.kippdc.org/about/calendar/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I don't know how long KIPP's summer program is - but their website says "mandatory summer school" starts in July. Is the summer school mandatory for ALL students, or just some? If it's mandatory for everyone, it's effectively a year round school, as most year round schools have breaks of about 6 weeks in the summer.

http://www.kippdc.org/about/calendar/

It's mandatory. We were accepted at KIPP for prek4 and the mandatory summer school was one of the reasons we went elsewhere. If I recall correctly, they also have school for 1/2 days on Saturdays twice a month and that is also mandatory.

[Anonymous]

at the expo the folks at Sela were saying they were going to have a 5 week summer program that I believe was free

[Anonymous]

Kipp was just in the news for having a padded "calm down" room. I don't believe it was a Kipp in this area but what's I've heard is that they are ran like a boot camp.

[Anonymous]

Many schools have a 4 week summer program, Bethune has one and Creative Minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I don't know how long KIPP's summer program is - but their website says "mandatory summer school" starts in July. Is the summer school mandatory for ALL students, or just some? If it's mandatory for everyone, it's effectively a year round school, as most year round schools have breaks of about 6 weeks in the summer.

http://www.kippdc.org/about/calendar/

It's mandatory. We were accepted at KIPP for prek4 and the mandatory summer school was one of the reasons we went elsewhere. If I recall correctly, they also have school for 1/2 days on Saturdays twice a month and that is also mandatory.

Case by case..at least in my case my child was "allowed" to not attend. Of course this is not something they tell parents.

But, I no longer have to deal with this as I pulled my child out of KIPP.

[Anonymous]

So I guess we can say a lot of DC schools are "year round" if we are counting summer programs..DCPS is year round