What exactly is a year round school?
Year round schools run on a schedule where there is no long summer break. Children attend the same number of days as they would in a traditional calendar school – no more and no less. Basically, the formula is 9 weeks in school followed by a minimum of 3 weeks off. In our situation, the kids are off for about 4 weeks in the summer (July), 3 weeks in October, 4 weeks in December/January, and 3 weeks in April. Why offer a year round calendar? Well, there are definitely some documented, as well as personal advantages. I’ll cover those in the next section. In Wake County North Carolina year round schools were implemented as a means to deal with explosive growth. Raleigh made the Money magazine Top 10 Places to Live list for a number of years, and the crowds descended. With so much undeveloped land and so much good press, the district literally could not build schools fast enough to accommodate the influx of students. In Wake County children are assigned to either Track 1,2,3, or 4. At any
