2025 Summer Experience

  • The 2025 Summer Programming is FREE to all Pre-K through 12 Columbus City Schools students! Summer Experience for Pre-K through 8 students kicks off June 23, and June 9 for high school students. We're excited to provide CCS students and families with a summer of exciting school and community-based learning experiences. 

    This year’s Pre-K through 8 Summer Experience includes similar project-based learning students and families have been able to enjoy through our Pathway Express focuses, including Pathways such as Health and Fitness, Performing Arts, Environmental Sciences, World Languages and Cultures, and MORE! 

    Tour your child’s building and meet their summer teacher June 18 during our Family Open House!

    Questions? Contact the Office of Extended Learning: 614-365-5010 or ExtendedLearning@columbus.k12.oh.us.

Discover Your Path!

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    Service Learning   STEM   Urban Agriculture   World Cultures and Languages   Zoology

     

     

2025 Summer Experience Locations & Schedules

  • Elementary Sites

    Middle School Sites

    High School Sites

    Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School

    (Grades PreK-4)

    Pathway: Performing Arts 

    Berwick Alternative School

    (Grades 5-8)

    Pathway: Performing Arts 

    Briggs High School

    (Grades 9-12)

    Columbus Spanish Immersion Academy

    (Grades PreK-4)

    Pathway: Urban Agriculture 

    Champion Middle School

    (Grades 5-8)

    Pathway: Urban Agriculture

     

    Beechroft High School

    (Grades 9-12)

     

    East Linden Elementary School

    (Grades K-4)

    Pathway: Entrepreneurship

    Starling Middle School

    (Grades 5-8)

    Pathway: Health & Fitness

     Centennial High School @ Gables

    (Grades 9-12)

    Ecole Kenwood French Immersion Elementary School

    (Grades K-4)

    Pathway: Zoology

    Woodward Park at Walden Middle School

    (Grades 5-8)

    Pathway: STEM

    Columbus Africentric Early College High School

    (Grades 9-12)

    Georgian Heights Elementary School

    (Grades PreK-4)

    Pathway: Culinary Arts

    		  

    Columbus International/Global High School

    (Grades 9-12)

    Huy/A.G. Bell Elementary School

    (Grades PreK-4)

    Pathway: World Languages & Cultures

     

    Columbus Alternative/Fort Hayes @ Fort Hayes

    (Grades 9-12)

    Olde Orchard Alternative Elementary School

    (Grades PreK-4)

    Pathway: Environmental

     

     

    Downtown High School/East @ Fort Hayes

    (Grades 9-12)

    Shady Lane Elementary School

    (Grades PreK-4)

    Pathway: Service-Learning

     

     

    Eastmoor Alternative High School

    (Grades 9-12)

     

    Southwood Elementary School

    (Grades K-4)

    Pathway: Health & Fitness

     

    Independence High School 

    (Grades 9-12)

    Westgate Elementary School

    (Grades PreK-4)

    Pathway: STEM

     

    Linden McKinley High School

    (Grades 9-12)

     

     

    Marion Franklin High School @ Moler

    (Grades 9-12)

     

     

    Mifflin High School

    (Grades 9-12)

     

     

    Northland High School @ Beechcroft

    (Grades 9-12)

     

     

    Walnut Ridge/COA High School @ Independence High School

    (Grades 9-12) 

     

     

    Whetstone High School

    (Grades 9-12)

     

     

    West High School

    (Grades 9-12)

     

     

    South High School

    (Grades 9-12)

    • Elementary and Middle School: Monday through Friday: June 23-July 18, 2025, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

    • High School: Monday through Thursday: June 9-July 18, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Attendance- IN-PERSON courses at select schools)