Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers participate with their age group during the summer. Our VBS is graded the same way. We simply use the curriculum designed for their prior grade but list them in their coming grade level. NO ONE has insisted on being in the next grade level like they did prior to this approach. College students also advance June 1st.
Some students enroll and start in the summer.
The only disadvantage we have discovered is the preschool and children's curriculum reaches its greatest degree of difficulty in the summer quarter. Adaptations must be made to teach at the proper learning level. Larry Morrison, Five Points Baptist Church, Northport, Alabama I have tried the scheduling around the public school thing about 5 times. It has never worked smoothly, so I just go with the flow for about 2 or 3 weeks until September when the curriculum changes. We generally have quite a bit of turnover in our teaching staff, and I can never get the curriculum sorted out or the rooms even.