During the summer of 2017, the school district offered a variety of programming including a 4-week Summer Academy with enrichment and remedial courses, weekly Friday field trips, and August summer camps focused on art, STEM, and superheroes. Over 350 students attended the Summer Academy and almost 900 students attended remedial courses at the high school level. The various summer camps and field trips were popular, filling to capacity with over 200 students each. Students also had the opportunity to recover credits in various core classes, with 27 students recovering science credits. The district provided free transportation, meals, and enrichment activities to nearly 1000 students daily through the programming.

1. Summer Programming 2017

2. Summer Programming 2017
During the summer, we offered families the following
programming…
● Summer Academy - 4-weeks of enrichment and remedial
programming 4 days a week
● Friday Field Trips - Field trips every Friday to
different locations around the community
● August Summer Camps - Art, STEM, and Superhero
● Boys & Girls Club - Wrap around programming outside of
our summer school offerings
● Various sports summer camps and school orientations

3. Enrollment...
Camps - Each of our summer camps brought in initial
enrollment numbers of 200+ students.
Summer Academy - Our 4-week summer programming brought in
350 students at River Heights and almost 900 students at the
high school.
Friday Field Trips - each Friday 60 students went on field
trips around the district. This offering fills up within
the first 12 hours of the enrollment window opening.

4. Credit Recovery ...
Students had the ability to revisit a number of different high
school courses to recover credit prior to the start of the
upcoming school year.
Algebra I Algebra II Geometry Physical Science
English 1 English 2 English 3 Intro to Social Studies
Biology Health Civics
In Science recovery alone, 27 students regained credit for a
semester class they failed during the school year!

5. Pictures are worth
a 1000 words….so
Let’s take a peek at
Summer in
SDMA...

6. Food Service
Fed a free lunch to almost 1000
students a day
Free breakfast to almost 600
each day

7. We provided free busing throughout
the 4-weeks of summer Academy
and 3-weeks of Summer camp

8. Students enjoyed participating in
enrichment classes and activities
throughout the four weeks of
summer Academy.
Here, a student enrolled in our
fishing class shows us her catch at
knapp pond.

9. Field Trip Fridays
Fishing
Students went fishing at Knapp Pond
Gymnastics
Students explored tumbling
Outdoor Cooking
Students went to the Environmental
Site and learned how to cook over
an open fire.
Theater
Students got a tour of the Mabel
Tainter Theater.

10. Summer Camps
three different camps were offered during
August for sDMA students…
● Art - 10 different artists worked
with students for a week
● STEM - imagine cool experiments
every day using science, technology,
engineering, and math!
● SUPERHERO - Students pretended to be
superheroes for a week...practicing
their math and literacy skills to save
the world!

11. Art Camp 2017!
Students from around the
district had the opportunity
to work with artists in
residence this summer during
our 1-week Art Camp.
Students in Tami Weiss’s art
class made self-portraits.