The Excelsior Springs School District’s summer school program wraps up soon, and school officials are pleased with the results. “Summer school has been a huge success. We have successfully developed our largest summer learning program and curriculum ever,” said Mark Bullimore, district director of communications. This year’s summer school program had 1,100 K-12 students enrolled, including 458 elementary students, 283 middle school students and 430 high school students. By comparison, 2021’s enrollment was approximately 200 K-8 students and 150 high school students, Bullimore said. With the previous two years having focused primarily on high-need areas of student retention/promotion and filling critical learning gaps, this year returned to a “fullblown summer learning program,” Bullimore said. The learning program focused on two needs. First, it provided students with the math, reading and writing skills needed to continue to grow while preventing the usual summer learning loss…