Summer School

Dates: 

1st semester: June 20th – July 3rd   

2nd semester: July 8th – July 19th

Hours: 8:30 - 2PM

EVHS will offer make-up courses this summer for students who earned a D or F grade in a class required for graduation and/or to meet A-G requirements.  Some classes are taught by a teacher, and some classes are completed online in Cyber High, but all classes are in-person.  

Students in need of summer school were added to the initial interest list when they met with their counselor in Jan/Feb to plan their schedules for next year.  Those students will receive a follow up email in spring to complete registration.  If students have a new need for summer school, contact their counselor before the end of the school year.  The meetings with the counselors where students planned schedules DID NOT sign you up for summer school.  Students still need to fill out the summer school application.  See below for the application.

After May 31, all summer school communication should be directed to the EVHS Summer School Coordinator, Dan Johnson: Johnsondan@esuhsd.org. 

The following make-up courses will be offered this summer to current EV students who need them for credit recovery:

Notes:  

EVHS may offer an enrichment Math 1 this summer for our incoming freshman.  We will know sometime around the middle of May whether we can offer this class.  World Languages, Science, Arts, and PE are not offered in summer.  

Attendance in summer school is crucial.  Each summer school day is equivalent to about 9 days of instruction during the regular year.  Because of that, only two days of missed classes are allowed before a student is dropped from their class.  And students will be expected to do any work assigned during the time they missed.  While we understand some families plan vacations during the summer, we cannot make exceptions to the absence rule.

We will also offer a Bridge class for our incoming freshman.  This class is intended for our incoming Cougars who might need a boost to get them ready for success in high school.  The course will cover some study skills, some math needed for succcess in math 1 and some English needed for success in English 1.  IT IS NOT for students trying to skip a year of math.  We will be recruiting directly with the feeder schools for this program.  If you feel this class would be good for you or your child and you have not been contacted by your feeder schools by May 15th, then please send an email to Mr. Johnson.

Summer School Coordinator:  Dan Johnson.   johnsondan@esuhsd.org

Please direct all questions regarding summer school to Mr. Johnson at the above email.  

EVHS MATH DEPARTMENT  - SUMMER SCHOOL SUGGESTIONS:

 

As a department, we strongly advise against students taking any summer school math course to advance. 


Over the years we have seen too many students who have taken math in summer school to advance a year perform poorly in their subsequent math classes.  Oftentimes the poor performance does not show up until the high level courses of Math Analysis or Calculus.


The school year is 38 weeks long, while summer school classes are only 4 or 5 weeks. Taking a math course in summer does not allow students adequate time to learn, process, and retain the material and thought processes needed for success in future math courses.  Only students who currently have an A in their math class and find it to be VERY EASY should consider taking summer math to advance.  An A is not enough. All students who do take summer math should be prepared to seek extra help the following year.


Also, EVHS has no control over the curriculum offered, the teachers who teach the classes, nor the level of difficulty of the course. Summer school programs are not always aligned with the EVHS math curriculum and may not cover all the lessons that are need to advance.