Summer school was considerably more popular this year in Flagstaff Unified School District, and even turned a profit.
In total, 268 students registered for summer middle and high school classes, and 225 earned credit, for an overall 84 percent success rate.
This summer was a mix of traditional in-class sessions and online classes. The traditional high school classes drew 91 students, while the new high school online option drew 67. At the middle school level, 110 students signed up for traditional classes (and 102 of them passed), more than doubling last year’s middle school rolls.
Assistant superintendent Dave Dirksen said the failure rate was relatively high for the hybridized online classes — only 40 earned credit in the pass-fail classes for a 60 percent success rate, while 83 of the 91, or 91 percent, of the traditional classroom students earned credit. He guessed that wasn’t due to a lack of technological savvy but because some students didn’t have the self-discipline to keep up with online instruction.
For the rest of the article, go to FUSD Notebook: Summer school popular and profitable
