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Woodhaven-Brownstown reviews summer learning programs, warns funding for 2026 not yet secured
Summary
Assistant Superintendent Satterfield updated the Board of Education on multi-age summer programming, attendance and early outcomes; district officials said the program costs about $500,000 and they are seeking grants to continue it in 2026.
Assistant Superintendent Satterfield told the Woodhaven-Brownstown School District Board of Education on Tuesday that the district is about 75% of the way through its 2025 summer learning program and is seeing steady participation and early academic gains.
Satterfield said, “we're about 75% through the summer program already. So we're flying.” The update described programs for children from kindergarten through high school, including Kinder Lit Lab (67 enrolled), elementary “check-in” events with 75–100 attendees, middle-school small-group “carousel” instruction, high-school credit recovery and a new in-person Algebra 1A/1B offering. He also described a seven-student, application-based GM internship program and multiple field trips and enrichment partnerships.
The presentation matters because the district budgets roughly $500,000 annually to operate the comprehensive summer model and has relied on a mix of grant sources, Satterfield said. He listed pandemic relief/ESSER funds and several other grant streams the district has used over the past five years but told the board that “as of right now, we don't have a secured grant for the next school year for 2026.”
Satterfield described program details and early data: elementary check-ins drew roughly 75–100 participants per event; attendance across summer offerings has averaged about 70 percent; elementary tutoring used i-Ready diagnostics to identify target skills; high school credit recovery is running on digital courseware with an 85 percent on-track rate; Algebra 1A launched in person on July 22 with 8 of 10 students currently on track to earn credit; Kinder Lit Lab runs eight weeks at three half days per week.
Superintendent Roberts praised the work and promised broader communication to highlight the program’s activities to the community, saying, “Our summer learning program is one of the most robust and comprehensive programs available anywhere.” Board members asked about grade ranges, surveys and how enrollment and scholarship arrangements with the city’s Parks and Recreation program work; Satterfield said the district scholarships tuition for identified students and provides targeted intervention three days a week while those students participate in the city’s enrichment offerings.
Satterfield said the district will continue to pursue grant funding and will present a detailed post-summer report to the board showing academic growth and attendance outcomes.
The board received the update and had no formal action on the summer learning presentation at the meeting.
