Organizing a year-round schedule is a key to keeping up with repairs.
Admission to the school is on a rolling, year-round schedule for qualified students.
Even if the school year is not lengthened, many educators say a year-round schedule makes sense.
In California, 20 percent of the 5 million schoolchildren are on a year-round schedule.
The building plans a year-round schedule of exhibitions, and will also include studios for visiting artists.
Most schools on year-round schedules - 1,200 out of about 2,000 nationwide - are in California.
The majority of these studies show that students' attitudes towards school did significantly increase as they spent more time on a year-round schedule.
At least two schools, and probably more, will be placed on year-round schedules this summer, he said.
The party will be a rare break in a year-round schedule.
With a year-round schedule, groups of students would take vacation during different months, reducing the number in school at any one time.