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Robbinsdale board showcases summer programs that reached nearly 5,000 students
Summary
District leaders and staff told the school board Sept. 16 that summer programs — from extended special-education services to Adventure Club and Freedom Schools — served 4,959 students across multiple sites and included targeted services, credit recovery and adult education.
Robbinsdale Public School District presented a series of summer-program reports to the school board on Sept. 16, with staff saying the district’s suites of offerings served a total of 4,959 students over the summer.
Tracy Mall, a special-education supervisor who leads the district’s Extended School Year (ESY) program, said ESY ran July 8–26 and served 175 students from early childhood through transition-age. "Extended school year is a mandated program for students that receive special education," Mall said, and her presentation noted four operating sites (New Hope Learning Center, Forest Elementary, Cooper and the Robbinsdale Transition Center) where teams focused on academics, communication and social-emotional goals.
District staff also reviewed targeted services and credit-recovery offerings. A district presenter reported K–8 targeted-services enrollment rose above pandemic levels and that high-school credit-recovery enrolled 711 students and awarded 728 credits, noting EduCLIMBER and FastBridge will be used to begin longitudinal analyses of student gains.
Community education and Adventure Club staff said their programs returned to pre‑COVID participation in several areas: Melissa Missiloch reported Adventure Club had about 765 K–5 enrollees and the basement (grades 6–8) program enrolled 142 students. She said swim lessons served 277 youth and that partnerships — notably with the New Hope YMCA and a Hennepin County lifeguard grant — are helping recruit new staff and certify lifeguards.
Tony Patterson, assistant director for achievement integration, highlighted College and Career Now and CDF Freedom Schools: College and Career Now enrolled 64 students in dual-enrollment college courses; Freedom Schools served roughly 130 K–8 scholars during a six-week program that combined culturally responsive reading curriculum, Harambee openings, field trips and family engagement nights.
Board members asked follow-up questions about curricular alignment (staff said summer resources are intentionally different from school-year core materials), recruitment strategies for middle-school programs and how the district will measure program efficacy. The district said EduCLIMBER and FastBridge data will be leveraged to produce longitudinal results the board will review in future reports.
The presentations concluded with staff and the superintendent thanking program teams for the scale of summer operations and the breadth of partnerships that supported enrichment, care and credit recovery.
