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MMSD outlines expanded summer school plan for 2025, including Freedom Schools pilot and expanded CTE camps
Summary
District staff described summer 2024 outcomes and proposed changes for summer 2025: moving middle-school programming to high school campuses, expanding discovery CTE camps, continuing $40/hour summer pay, adding a Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools pilot at Mendota, and tracking attendance and invitation/enrollment gaps.
The Madison Metropolitan School District presented an update and plans for summer-school programming in 2025 at its Instruction Work Group on Jan. 6.
District leaders said they intend to shift middle-school summer programming to high school campuses to take advantage of newly available CTE and arts facilities and air-conditioned spaces; expand middle-school discovery camps beyond 12 offered in 2024; continue a $40-per-hour pay rate for summer teachers; and pilot a Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools program at Mendota Elementary.
Why it matters: MMSD officials framed summer programming as both academic support and enrichment. They reported the district served nearly 4,000 students in 2024 across K–12 summer offerings, with targeted arts, CTE camps, credit-recovery and Extended School Year (ESY) services. Officials said elementary students showed gains on beginning/end-of-summer assessments, and high-school credit-recovery courses had nearly a 100% success rate.
Key details and numbers: Nicole Schaeffer, director of summer programming, said the district "serves nearly 4,000 students for K through 12th grade," and noted increased staffing of MMSD…
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