Milwaukee Public Schools will conduct the first Enrollment Marathon Day on Saturday, August 9. Volunteers will canvass door-to-door from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to enroll students who have not selected a school for 2008-2009. It is a first-time effort to reach out into neighborhoods to find students and their families.

MPS year-round schools open for 2008-2009
Number of year-round schools has increased to twenty

In a continuing effort to offer services and educational plans requested by parents, Milwaukee Public Schools is opening more year-round schools than in previous years.

Twenty year-round schools will begin 2008-2009 classes for approximately 7,000 students on August 4.

This year, Lloyd Street School, 1228 W. Lloyd St. , is going to the year-round calendar. The school held its enrollment fest on Saturday, August 2 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. to help parents who still had not registered students for the new school year.

The other 2008-09 year-round Milwaukee Public Schools are: Alliance High School, 234 W. Galena St. (instrumentality charter school); Carter School of Excellence, 2001 W. Vliet St. (non-instrumentality charter school); Congress K-8 School, 5225 W. Lincoln Creek Dr.; DIAL High School, 227 W. Pleasant St. (instrumentality charter school); El Puente High School, 611 W. National Ave. (partnership school); Hawthorne Elementary School, 6945 N. 41st St.; Metcalfe K-8 School, 3400 W. North Ave.; Milwaukee Education Center Middle School, 227 W. Pleasant St.; Northern Star, 5075 N. Sherman Blvd (instrumentality charter school); River Trail K-8 School, 12021 W. Florist Ave.; Silver Spring Elementary School, 5131 N. Green Bay Ave.; Sixty-eighth St. Early Childhood Center, 6720 W. Moltke Ave.; Starms Discovery School, 2035 N. 25th St.; Starms Early Childhood/Monumental School, 2616 W. Garfield Ave.; Urban Waldorf K-8 School, 1312 N. 27th St.; Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, 2442 N. 20th St.; Wings Academy, 1501 S. Layton Blvd (non-instrumentality charter school); Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning, 3120 W. Green Ave.; and WORK Institute High School, 1017 N. 12th St. (instrumentality charter school.)

"Many parents and teachers feel a year-round schedule helps students maintain what has been learned in classrooms," said Superintendent William Andrekopoulos. "The year round schools are one of the many kinds of learning communities we provide in Milwaukee Public Schools."

MPS is Wisconsin ’s largest public school district, serving 87,000 students with focused academics. District achievement is guided by its Working Together, Achieving More strategic plan.