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However, the number of public schools using this calendar declined from 6% in 1999 to just 3% in 2018, according to an analysis published in EducationNext. Many districts that do year-round...
For many K-12 students across the country, springtime marks the end of the school year. But the semester’s just heating up for students in more than 3,000 schools in the United States that operate under a year-round school system.
The National Association for Year-Round Education reported in 2007 that 3,000 year-round schools enrolled more than 2 million students in the United States. But does the research show that year-round schooling raises student achievement? What We Know.
Year-round schooling alters the school calendar by redistributing school and vacation days more evenly throughout the year, without changing the number of school days per year. YRSCs take two forms: In the single-track version, all students participate in the same school calendar.
Ten percent of US public schools are currently using a year-round calendar. [2] A research spotlight on year-round education discusses the year-round calendar. The basic year-round calendar generates through a 45-15 ratio.
By 2000, the number of year-round public schools had grown to 3,059 schools, serving almost 2.2 million students in 45 states. During the 2011-2012 school year, there were 3,700 public schools across the nation operating on a year-round calendar cycle.
Year-round schooling, also called a ‘balanced calendar’ system, has grown remarkably in the United States for K-12 establishments, over the past three decades, from a total enrollment of around 400,000 students in the mid-1980s to over 2 million by the early 2000s.
Data from the National Association of Year-Round Education shows that schools in 46 states and the District of Columbia have adopted a year-round format and that nearly 3 million K-12 students in the U.S. attend a year-round school.
In other demographics, year-round school seems to have a minimal effect on summer learning loss. In schools like Rebecca’s, the year-round calendar has been a benefit. “Students get a break after every 12 weeks. This break is only 4 weeks, so the gap in losing what they have learned is very minimal,” she notes.
In year-round schools, kids attend classes for six to nine weeks at a time, with two- to four-week breaks. The big question educators and parents are asking is whether year-round schooling improves literacy development.