During the Summer of 2025, we served over 2,231 students in our summer programs which included morning academics complemented by afternoon enrichment at all sites. HPS was joined by 16 community-based organizations supporting 9 sites in Early Start for elementary school students, Rising Stars for middle school programming, and Credit Recovery for high school students. We are proud to announce that 71 new high school graduates walked the stage at our August 1 commencement exercises.
In our Early Start programming for elementary school students, there was a strong literacy focus on Phonics, Fluency, and Comprehension. After the morning academics, Afternoon Enrichment included partnership with the following Community-based organizations for on-site afternoon enrichment programming.
At Breakthrough Magnet School - North, they were joined by The Village, Karen Minette (art Instructor), UCONN (Engineering Institute), Layavinyaza, United Way, Read2Grow Book Mobile, Discovering Amistad, BGC, and C 2 Your Health.
Global Communications Academy students were joined by the Police Athletic League, My People’s Clinic, while at Environmental Sciences Magnet, OPMAD provided enrichment. Sanchez School providers were the Hispanic Health Council and Catholic Charities, while at Dwight Bellizzi, The Village and Arts for Learning CT were on-site. West Middle School and Bellizzi students were joined by the Boys and Girls Club.
OPMAD made a very cute video about all their summer programming this year. Watch it here!
The Rising Stars Middle School Program for new and returning students entering grades 6-8 included Literacy and Math academic programming provided by HPS staff, and afternoon enrichment programming provided on-site by The Village and Catholic Charities. The students enjoyed all-day enrichment programming on Friday at Ebony Horsewomen at Keney Park. This program was funded by the CSDE Sheff Interdistrict Summer Grant, and hosted by Classical Magnet School.
The Credit Recovery program for our high school students delivered renewed focus on ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, World Language, the Arts, PE and Health courses. Also included were Mastery-Based Assessments recovering credits in Algebra (I, II), Civics, Drawing, Economics, English (I, II, III, IV), Geometry, Health, PE, Spanish, and History (US, World). Summer included a partnership with CWP for Summer Youth Employment who guaranteed job placements for our youth.
Comparing this year to last:
2024 Credits Recovered: 710.5 Credits in 26 courses
2024 August Graduates: 38 Graduates from 10 schools
2025 Credits Recovered: 828.5* Credits in 26 courses (*Inclusive of MBA credits (250.5). Credit Recovery (678)
2025 August Graduates: 71 Graduates from 9 schools
In total ,we served 1,062 elementary school students, 136 middle school students, and 1,033 high school students. Congratulations to all our summer students and to our staff and partners who made this work possible.