FAQ

This year, Simi Valley Summer School will be in-person instruction for all grades. It will take place from

Wednesday, July 5 through Friday, July 28, 2023. There is no school on Tuesday, July 4.

Elementary and Middle School

at Sinaloa Middle School

Grades 1 through 5

8:00am - 12:20pm

Grades 6 through 8

8:15am - 12:35pm

Break: 10:15am - 10:35am

High School Summer School

at Santa Susana High School

Grades 9 through 12

8:30am - 12:45pm

Break 10:30am - 10:45am

Please note that Simi Valley Summer School is operated by Learn4Life and not the Simi Valley Unified School District. The Simi Valley Unified School District provides facilities and systems to help operate the summer school programs, and many Simi Valley Unified School District staff will work in the programs.

Simi Valley Summer School is available only to current and incoming 1st through 12th grade students. 

School Summer School will be held as in-person instruction. There is no virtual instruction option. Students who are absent more than two days will be dropped from the summer school program. Please talk to your counselor about alternate programs if you are not able to meet this attendance requirement.

Middle School and High School:

Classes are viewable in Aeries.​

Enrollment in Simi Valley Summer School is done through the Registration Google Form located on the Simi Valley Summer School website. Placement in summer school classes is verified by the student's SVUSD current school counselor. As the counselors verify the students' requests, the students are then placed into classes.

After enrollment has been verified and approved by the student's current school counselor, an email is sent to families for the second step in the enrollment, which is completing the Master Agreement from Learn4Life. The Master Agreement is not a registration form. It is Learn4Life's system to confirm that families agree to their policies and procedures. Courses selected on the Master Agreement should match the courses that were chosen on the Registration Google Form, the ones approved by the SVUSD counselor. Official enrollment is the completion of the Registration Google Form AND Master Agreement. If you have not filled out the Master Agreement, you will be asked to complete one before the start of classes.

Elementary School:

After completing the Registration Google Form you will be sent an email confirmation and the link to the Master Agreement. After completing both the Registration Google Form and the Master Agreement, you will be officially registered. No counselor verification is needed for Elementary School Summer School. 

Families must complete the Master Agreement document for participation in Learn4Life Summer School. This agreement usually comes sometime after the Google Form. It is a separate document. If you have not completed this step and you are actually enrolled in summer school, please contact your summer school counselor.

Because of the compressed schedule, regular daily attendance is absolutely crucial to student success. Missing one day of summer school is similar to missing more than a week of instruction during the regular year.

If a student does not go to class on July 5, they will be considered absent, and they risk being dropped from the course(s) if they are absent 2 times during the summer. They also risk a drop/fail in the course(s), which will appear on their transcript as an "F." 

Simi Valley Summer School for High School students is intended for students who need to recover credit and skills from a previous year. There are also some courses available as go-ahead classes that students would normally take at their home school during the regular school year. Please contact your home school's counselor for more information on which courses those are. 

Students can take either two (2) semester courses OR one (1) year-long course (10 credits) in High School Summer School. 

High School students can take a third class if it is for Athletics credit only.

It is assumed that all students will enroll in two periods, but students can enroll in one period if that is all they need for credit recovery. 

A and B refer to the first (A) and second (B) semesters of a year-long course. If a student needs to recover credit for an entire year, they would need to take both the A and B offerings. For example, a year of Biology would be Biology A and Biology B. The same is true of English, Math, and History classes.

Teachers will individually coordinate with our Library for class sets of books and other possible checkouts of curricular materials. This will be handled in class during the start of summer school. As these are SVUSD materials, students are subject to the same fees as the normal school year for any damaged or lost books and materials. Some courses use consumable materials that are one-time use and can be taken after summer school ends by the student.

Please direct all general questions about summer school to your school counselor at the school you will be attending next school year. A list of counselors by school can be found on the High School Counselors webpage.