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Boys & Girls Club partnership produced double‑digit summer learning gains for Mishawaka students, district says
Summary
A five‑week Summer Learning Lab run with the Boys & Girls Club showed a 26% ELA learning gain and a 20% math gain on third‑party assessments for Mishawaka participants; program served about 500 students at two sites.
The School City of Mishawaka reviewed results Jan. 8 from a five‑week Summer Learning Lab run in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club, reporting significant academic gains among participating students.
Jacqueline Crunk, chief executive officer of the Boys & Girls Club, said the program combined a morning academic block with enrichment activities and staffed each classroom with certified teachers. “This was a 5‑week all day program,” Crunk said. “It was 66 hours of high quality academic enrichment per student.”
The board was told the district operated two sites, Liberty Elementary and John Young, serving just under 500 students during the pilot. Third‑party testing showed an average 26% learning gain in English language arts from pretest to posttest and a 20% gain in math for Mishawaka participants. The presenters gave a concrete example of a student whose ELA score rose from the low 60s to the mid‑70s after the program.
Boys & Girls Club presenters emphasized that the curriculum used an acceleration model (not remediation), that the program included emotional‑well‑being support and that collaboration with district principals and teachers was essential. The presenters also said the statewide initiative served roughly 2,500 students across 16 sites in Indiana and that Mishawaka was among the larger local implementations.
District officials thanked the Boys & Girls Club for the partnership and said they are hopeful the program can be scaled and replicated next summer.
