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Principals update Ogdensburg school board on summer school programs

Posted 9/19/18

By THOMAS LUCKIE III OGDENSBURG – Reports summarizing 2018 summer school programs were provided to the Ogdensburg City School District Board of Education at Monday’s meeting. Regional and Local …

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Principals update Ogdensburg school board on summer school programs

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By THOMAS LUCKIE III

OGDENSBURG – Reports summarizing 2018 summer school programs were provided to the Ogdensburg City School District Board of Education at Monday’s meeting.

Regional and Local Secondary Summer School Principal Christina Frank updated the board on the program run by BOCES with instruction taking place at Ogdensburg Free Academy.

The program included 199 students from the Canton, Edwards-Knox, Hammond, Hermon-DeKalb, Heuvelton, Lisbon, Madrid-Waddington, Morristown, and Ogdensburg school districts.

Frank noted an increase in student enrollment over the past five years as well as a corresponding rise in the number of courses offered and sections of courses due to the increase in students.

“In order to control and better monitor students while they were on campus with us, in particular those that are coming from outlying districts, we added a study hall,” Frank said. “Students from outlying districts spent any open class periods in that study hall so that they were supervised at all times when they were here in Ogdensburg.”

Geometry and career and financial management courses were able to be offered due to use of the district’s distance learning classroom, which Frank said would not have been possible without use of the classroom, as the courses were held in conjunction with Massena Central School District.

Social studies and English language arts courses remain the most popular, with driver’s education following closely behind.

81 percent of students enrolled in summer school programs successfully completed coursework, while 47 percent of students enrolled in summer school passed regents exams compared to 51 percent pass rate of walk-in students taking regents exams.

“The results were comparable to past summer programs, the overwhelming majority of our students, both summer school and walk-ins, increased their scores. Not all of them were necessarily successful, but 27 days is a short time-frame and we are always looking for ways to better get them through the exams,” Frank said.

John F. Kennedy Elementary School Principal UPK-2 Jacquelyn Kelly provided an overview of the district’s Elementary Summer School and Readiness Program to the board.

“Our numbers were slightly down this summer, but only by about 16 students, we still served 205 students this summer,” Kelly said.

The district also added an additional special education pre-school classroom this past summer, according to Kelly.

Kelly also pointed out that the Salvation Army teamed up with the programs at Kennedy and Grant C. Madill Elementary Schools to provide approximately 100 bagged lunches for students on school days.

“I think that was a great opportunity for out students and some of the families who came to pick them up, as they were allowed to take lunches too,” Kelly said.