Year Round Education

Many American boarding schools recognize the value of year-round education. Rather than offering a long summer break as many public and private schools do, they instead offer relatively shorter breaks throughout the year. Others choose to simply continue classes on more days.

Benefits of Year Round Education

Going to school year round, or with a very short break, actually has been shown to increase student knowledge retention and performance. Much learning is lost over the summer when students deliberately forget the skills and information they painstakingly learned for the previous nine months.

With this lapse of knowledge, much of the education in a school offering long breaks is repeated instruction to help remind students of what they should already know. In a school with year-round education, there is little or no need for extensive review. Material is allowed to build and is heavily retained by students as they use prior knowledge as building blocks for the future.

Going to school year-round at American boarding schools not only offers students a chance to continue educational momentum, but also an opportunity to travel or rest at different parts of the year. Family vacations can be taken in the fall or winter rather during the hottest (and more expensive) parts of the year.