Holmen presents summer‑school and reading-program results; officials cite notable gains
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Summary
District staff reported summer programs served hundreds of students across grade levels, with a new reading intervention showing measurable improvements: dozens of participants no longer required personal reading plans at rescreening; summer programs also added 42.4 FTE in state-aid membership calculations.
Kim Edwards, executive director of instructional services, and summer‑school administrators reported program outcomes and operational lessons from the recent summer session.
At the elementary level, Prairie View hosted enrichment classes for 267 students and ran a Ready, Set, Let's Learn kindergarten program. The district piloted a summer reading program in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club that served two sessions: in the first session 29 students attended only session 1 and, at rescreening, 14 of those no longer required a personal reading plan; session 2 alone enrolled 41 students and 31 of those no longer required a personal reading plan; among the 40 students who attended both sessions, 19 later screened above the district's intervention threshold and no longer required a personal reading plan.
Middle- and high-school summer offerings included enrichment electives, recovery courses for failed core classes and a TRP performance program that partnered with technical and community organizations. At the high school, presenters said 582 total students were impacted by summer school (compared with a five‑year average of roughly 558), and session‑1 participants earned course credits at a high success rate (presenters reported roughly 151 credits across about 315 enrollments in session 1 and an average of about 4.48 credits earned per participant).
Edwards and staff also described operational improvements for future sessions: refining registration to prevent double-booking, splitting large remediation cohorts into smaller sections over more days, considering whether virtual health is appropriate for incoming freshmen, and aligning summer registration windows with high-school registration to streamline enrollment.
Financially, the presenters explained how summer instructional minutes convert to DPI FTE: summer programs count as 40% of generated FTE for state aid; this year summer programs added 42.4 FTE to membership counts versus 34.4 FTE the previous year, a noted increase.