Summer School
- After meeting with your counselor to go over various summer school options, stop by the College and Career Center (#776) to pick-up your summer school application (for ACCESS) or receive information on how to print out a fillable, online application (PCHS).
- Once you complete your summer school application, please turn it into Ms. Cazares in the College and Career Center. Use a personal email address on the application. Do not use your school email.
- The application will be screened for any corrections before it is officially submitted to the program.
- If your counselor recommended you take courses with ACCESS, these applications must be picked in the College and Career Center, have all of the yellow areas completely filled out, and make sure parent and student signatures are filled in.
- If your counselor recommended you take courses with PCHS, these applications must be filled out online, printed, and then submitted in-person to Ms. Cazares, in the College and Career Center. Instructions and website information can be located here, after counselor approval for PCHS.
- Summer school applications are picked up every Friday and are on a first come first serve basis. Please have your application in before the end of every Friday to ensure your application is ready to be submitted to the program.
A: First: Meet with your counselor to determine eligibility & class/program placement. Second: Receive appropriate enrollment packet. Third: Complete & return all forms by the deadline listed on the enrollment packet.
Q: Is it too late to register for summer school?
A: The deadline to submit an application for summer school offered through PYLUSD is in May 2022. External Programs, however, have open enrollment. For more info, visit www.esperanzahs.net → Academics → Counseling → External Courses tab
Q: What Summer School Programs are available?
A: ACCESS, PCHS, Impact!, PYLUSD Credit Recovery, and CollegeLink (dual enrollment) summer school classes are available this year.
Q: Does the grade my child receives in summer school replace the grade he/she received during the original semester?
A: No, both the original D/F grade and the remediated grade will remain on the transcript, which means both grades are used in GPA calculation. College/University policy dictates whether students are to report one or both grades.
Q: Can you take summer school to remediate a C grade or higher?
A: No. Summer School is designed to remediate D and F grades only. Colleges will not accept a repeat class in which they already received a C or higher.
Q: Do the semesters of summer school correspond to the original semesters of the school year?
A: Yes, the semesters do correspond to the semester of the original school year.
Q: How many classes can you take during the summer?
A: Students can take a max of 20 credits (15 credits max for ACCESS/10 credits max for PCHS) for the summer of 2022. Each class semester is worth 5 credits. So students can take either 1 full-year class or 2-semester class.
Q: My child has to remediate more than one subject, can he/she take more than one course?
A: Yes. As long as they are only 1 semester each. (see question above)
Q: If my child wants to get ahead, are there any options for that?
A: Students can take an online course through an external institution to get ahead. External Course Credit: A maximum of 20 credits of coursework, over 4 years, will be accepted from external institutions. These courses may be used for acceleration, advancement, or elective credit, but cannot be used for original credit core courses required for a high school diploma as outlined in Education Code 51225.3. Before enrolling in the external course, students must turn in the application & all required documentation to their counselor for approval. These courses are fee-based and generally cost $200-$400. PYLUSD is not responsible for any part of those fees.
Q: What if I have more questions that are not listed above?
Q: What if I wish to drop a summer school course that I signed up for through ACCESS or PCHS?