2025 PCPS Summer Academy

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Petersburg City Public Schools

Summer Academy 2025

PCPS Summer Academy is an exciting opportunity that provides elementary, middle, and high school students with multiple options for enrichment, S.T.E.A.M. career exploration, credit-recovery and remediation.

Summer Academies will be held at the following PCPS school sites:

Pleasants Lane Elementary for grades K-5 and Vernon Johns-Blandford 6 Middle School (main campus) for grades 6-12.

(K means students that have already completed Kindergarten and will be rising 1st graders in fall 2024)

Student Registration will begin on April 18, 2025. Applications will be available online and supplemented by a few paper forms at all schools.

The deadline to register for Summer Academy 2025 is May 27, 2025. For Power Scholars (K-5) and Full STEAM AHEAD (4th and 5th Grade) the deadline is May 15.

There will be a cap on the number of registrations and students may not be permitted to attend if they attempt to register past the deadline.

Summer Academy 2025 dates are:

Full session

June 9 - July 17, 2025

Grades K-5 Power Scholars Academy

(K means students that have already completed Kindergarten and will be rising 1st graders in fall 2024)

- - - - June 9, 2025 - July 17, 2025 - Monday through Thursday with Fridays reserved for the following:
        Academic activities and field trips will take place for K-5 Summer on Fridays directed by the Petersburg YMCA
        (Attendance is required on Monday-Thursday to be eligible for any Friday activity/field trip. (More information is available once the YMCA receives a separate completed registration form for the Power Scholars Academy Program. Once you register for the PCPS Summer Academy 2025 , you will be automatically enrolled in the YMCA program.

(No classes for K-5 on Thursday, June 19, 2025, Thursday, July 3 & Friday, July 4, 2025)

Grades 6-12
- - - - June 9, 2025 - July 17, 2025 - Monday through Thursday

(No classes on Fridays or the following holiday(s):

Thursday, June 19, 2025 & Thursday, July 3, 2025 for grades 6-12)

Summer Academy locations:

Pleasants Lane Elementary School for grades K-5 (Fridays will be reserved for field trip days for K-5 students with the Petersburg YMCA exclusively)
Vernon Johns-Blandford 6 MS (main campus) for grades 6-12

Summer Academy Grades 6-12 dates:

Summer Academy dates run from Monday, June 9, 2025 - Tuesday, July 17, 2025

Summer Academy hours:

Grades K-5 Summer Academy hours are from 8:30 AM- 2:40 PM including Fridays
Grades 6-12 Summer Academy hours are from 7:30 AM- 1:40 PM

(Students taking only one credit recovery course will be released at 11:20 AM)

STEM Summer Enrichment Opportunities are also available for K-12 students.

Please visit the STEM page for more information on how to register.

Summer Academy Attendance/Truant Protocol

After a student has incurred one unexcused absence, the teacher will attempt contact with the student’s parents or guardian; this attempt shall be recorded in the designated form. If a student has incurred two unexcused absences, the Summer Academy site administrator will attempt to make contact with the student’s parent or guardian; this attempt shall be recorded in the designated form.
Additionally, the Summer Academy AP/Coordinator(s) will send an attendance warning letter to the students’ registered mailing address. If a student has incurred three unexcused absences, the Summer Academy AP/Coordinator(s) will attempt to contact the student’s parents or guardian.
If a student fails to improve their attendance after these contact attempts, they will be withdrawn from Summer Academy.

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