Summer schools focusing on literacy and math, keeping students form ‘backsliding’

SALT LAKE CITY — For the past three summers, Davis School District has shifted to a primary focus on literacy and math. Post-Pandemic, the need for extra help in those subjects has increased.

Traci Robbins, Executive Director of Elementary Schools in Davis County says it really has made a big difference.

“That consistency and that continuity in instruction is critical to retention of learning,” Robbins says.

She says summer school students don’t have the backslide that happens to a lot of students. However, students have to be recommended by their teacher in order to be invited to the summer school program.

Each district in Utah runs their summer programs individually and not every district has a program. 

“This helps level the playing field for those students who are going to enter the next grade level,” Robbins says.

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