Summer Academy is a four-week academic program that is open to all rising first through fifth-grade DPS students. This program focuses on preparing elementary students for future success.

Discovery Link Summer Camps offer students a lively, active environment where they can engage in a variety of experiences, including visual and performing arts, sports and Field Days, science, cultural exploration, and student-led activities.

This orientation program available at select middle schools is designed to prepare rising 5th-grade students for success in 6th grade. Contact your student’s school to find out if they offer this program.

Generation Teach provides 7 and a half hours daily academic programming for 5 weeks, including daily instruction in math, reading, law, and engineering with social justice focus throughout; daily enrichment in art, games, sports, financial literacy, and community-building to engage and retain students, teachers, and leaders; and daily advisory time or community meetings to build culture and community.

This orientation program, available at select high schools, is designed to prepare rising 8th-grade students for success in 9th grade. Contact your student’s school to find out if they offer this program.

This four-week culture and identity studies program is especially for, but not exclusive to, rising 9th grade students and families and higher with Black/African-American, Latine/LatinX, Asian American/Pacific Islander and/or Indigenous backgrounds to engage in hands-on, fun, experiential learning about the modern civic complexities that marginalized communities face.

Concurrent enrollment provides students with an opportunity to take college-level courses for free while still enrolled in high school. Participating students can earn college and high school credits at the same time.

Participating high schools offer juniors and seniors hands-on experience in select careers.

Ready for 202X is a program that helps give incoming freshmen the skills they need to be successful though high school and beyond.

Regional Summer School (RSS) is a unique, fast-paced course recovery program that grants high school students an opportunity to earn the credits needed to get back on-track to graduate. This 5-week program combines Imagine Learning’s Edgenuity digital curriculum platform with in-person educator support for the purposes of Credit Recovery (CR) and Original Credit (OC). With multiple locations throughout the DPS community, RSS ensures that all DPS students have equitable access to this valuable opportunity.

Ready to get started? Reach out to your school’s counseling team to learn more about how Regional Summer School can help you achieve your goals!

Through the City and County of Denver’s Youth Program Locator, you can search for virtual or in-person programs that lead to kids staying safe, active and engaged.

This free program offered by the Denver Public Library seeks to make reading fun for students of all ages.

Family and Community Engagement (FACE) has created a list of additional community resources available for Denver families and student all year round.

The MY Denver Card provides youth ages 5-18 free access to recreation centers, swimming pools and various cultural facilities where they can participate in healthy, safe and fun activities after school, during school and summer breaks, and on the weekends.

Instantly access thousands of free ebooks and audiobooks online. Weekly prizes for students who participate in the Summer of Sora program!

More information coming soon.