Summer Rising

Calendar

Please note that Summer Rising will be closed on Friday, July 4, 2025, in observance of Independence Day.

Please Note: Students who enroll in a Summer Rising seat are accessing a seat for the hours above dependent on their grade or program. Families with scheduling concerns around full-day attendance should contact their CBO once placed into a program. 

*Students with 12-month IEPs will have the option to participate in DYCD-led extended day enrichment hours (until 6 PM) and programming through August 9, 2025 (6–8 students) and August 16, 2025 (K–5 students). Families interested in this extended day enrichment should apply via the application portal.

Find a Summer Rising Program

On March 4, you will be able to search Summer Rising program sites in MySchools.

Students with Disabilities

Accommodations

Students who receive a health paraprofessional or nurse during the school year pursuant to an IEP or 504 Plan will receive those services throughout the Summer Rising day. Students who have a behavioral paraprofessional will receive this support during the academic portion of the day and will receive additional support as needed during enrichment activities.  Schools will prepare a Summer Rising Accommodation Plan for all students with IEPs indicating supports the student may need.  These plans will be given to the student’s parent and the student’s Summer Rising site before Summer Rising begins.

Enrollment for Students in 12-Month IEP Programs

Students in D75, Extended School Year (ESY), or Autism programming over the summer can choose to participate only in their IEP programming (until 2:30pm for D75, 2:00pm for ESY and 12pm for Autism Programs) or IEP programming plus CBO-led extended-day enrichment until 6pm. Please review these important application details: 

If a family does not want extended day enrichment for their child, and their child will only be participating in Autism programming (until 12pm) or D75/ESY programming, the family should contact their child's school instead of using the application portal.

If a family wants to participate in IEP programming and extended-day enrichment (in other words, programming until 6pm), they should use the application portal. Families in Autism, ESY, and D75 programming will have priority for seats in Summer Rising.

Autism - Horizon or Nest students and ESY students: Families can choose between any of the Summer Rising CBO program(s) operating at the student’s IEP program site.

D75 students: D75 schools often operate at more than one location over the summer. In the portal, families of D75 students will see the locations where their home school is operating where there is also enrichment programming until 6pm. If a student’s morning location is one of the available options, families should rank the program(s) within that location, so the student can stay at the same site all day.

• If the student’s morning location is not one of the available options, families can choose between the program(s) and site(s) listed, and NYC Public Schools will aim to provide an alternate 2:30pm bus drop-off to that site. 

For families interested in CBO-led extended-day enrichment until 6pm for elementary students, please note:

• Elementary Students who are staying until 6pm and are eligible for transportation will have access to pre-paid rideshare services, where a family member can take a pre-paid rideshare to pick up their child, and then a pre-paid rideshare home with their child. School buses will not be available at 6pm.
• ASD elementary school students who sign up for 8am-6pm programming can either take a bus home at 3pm (the latest time NYC Public Schools buses run) or participate in rideshare at 6pm. 

Transportation

Families can check their Summer Rising transportation information which will be available in late June or reach out to their school to check the ridership information.

NYC Public Schools and DYCD are committed to ensuring students have a safe way to and from Summer Rising. This summer, eligible students will receive daily busing from July 2 through August 8, arriving at their program at approximately 8 AM and leaving by no later than 3 PM, as the last bus departs at 3 PM. However, students can stay until 6 PM, and eligible students will receive rideshare services to leave at 6 PM.

Students in D75 and ESY programming will receive busing for the duration of their IEP program: July 2–August 12 for ESY and July 3–August 13 for D75. Eligible students must enroll in summer programming by May 13 to receive a bus route in time for July 2.

Students eligible for busing transportation include:

• Students with IEPs that recommend busing
• Students with a 504 accommodation that mandates busing
• Students in temporary housing, in grades K to 6, and grades 7 and 8 with an IEP, residing more than 0.5 mile away from their summer site who requested and were found eligible for busing during the 10-month school year, either through an exception or through the DHS CARES transportation preference request
• Students in foster care, in grades K to 6, and grades 7 and 8 with an IEP, residing more than 0.5 mile away from their summer site who requested and were found eligible for busing during the 10-month school year through an exception
• Any other student who requested an exception for transportation and were found eligible for busing during the 10-month school year (For eligible students, families, NYC Public Schools and supporting shelter staff can request a new exception during the Summer Rising term through SupportHub if a new transportation request is needed)
• Students who received stop-to-school busing during the school year and remain grade and distance eligible based on the location of their summer site (you can find grade and distance eligibility on the transportation eligibility page)
• Students in grades K–6 who are not grade and distance eligible during the school year and whose site is not open for summer will receive busing only from their 10-month site to their Summer Rising site if the two are more than half a mile apart.

Students who were assigned OMNYCards during the school year will continue to use their OMNY card  to use to get to their Summer Rising site.  Students who  become eligible based on the distance of their Summer Rising site can receive a OMNY at their summer site and can use these OMNYCards to go to and from Summer Rising at the program start and end times (8AM and 6PM). 6PM busing will not be available this summer; however, families of eligible students (Students in Temporary Housing, Students in Foster Care, and students who receive curb-to-school busing and who are signed up for programming until 6PM for Elementary, 6PM for Middle School) will have access to an OMNYCard upon request or pre-paid rideshare, similar to last year.

Families can access their busing information in their NYCSA account or contact their school for ridership details.

Please Note: Students accepted during the wait-list phase may not receive busing on the first day. Families should reach out to their school to determine the date that busing will begin. The PIC’s delegated staff should reach out to the district transportation liaison for eligible students requiring transportation. Metro cards will be available upon request.

RideShare 

NYCPS will be offering  rideshare  to eligible families for Summer Rising dismissal as busing will only be available through 3pm.  

This rideshare model is site-driven and parent-procured -- parents, guardians, or authorized adults book rides to and from the Summer Rising site through the LimoSys website or contact 212-426-8000.

All eligible students will have a voucher code for LimoSys in their NYCSA account (these codes have been created centrally). Before July 2, please reach out to your eligible families to inform them of their options and assist them in creating a NYCSA account if needed. 

Rideshare Eligibility 

Students are eligible rideshare if they meet all of the following criteria:  

• They were in grades K-8 in SY 24-25 
• They will be at a Summer Rising or D75 Hub site for enrichment programming  
• They have a program code in ATSSUM that indicates they will be participating in programming until 6pm 
• They have curb-to-school busing this summer OR they are a STH or SFC student who is either routed for stop-to-school busing (grades K-6) or have an IEP (grades 7-8)
  

Accessing Rideshare 

• To book a ride, families can book directly through the LimoSys website or contact 212.426.8000  
• Families will be able to book two trips totaling four rides a day with the single voucher code (i.e. to school in the AM, from the school in the AM, PM adult pick up to school and from school in the PM)  
• Families must use the Summer Rising address as both the destination of the ride to pick up their child AND as the starting point for their ride home. The ride can only be booked from  the school address as the start or end point of the ride.  
  

The PIC or designee (e.g. Transportation Coordinator) must contact these families using the contact information in the RCON report in ATSSUM to inform parents that they are eligible for the service and provide their voucher codes. They should also inform the parent/guardian where they can access the code moving forward, as well as the fact that the person picking up the child must be an authorized adult (over the age of 18) per the student’s Blue Card information and/or the DYCD supplemental enrollment form. 

Support/Escalation Protocol 

Families:  If families need technical support related to booking the ride, they should contact:  

Limosys directly at 212.426.8000 or email Doe@limosys.com. If families need access to the voucher code for Limosys , they should log into their NYC Schools Account (NYCSA), under the Transportation screen’s Vehicle Modifications field it will be listed as the Eligibility Code. If families do not have a NYC Schools Account (NYCSA), the CBO should escalate to the NYCPS staff member with access to Student Profile, e.g. the Transportation Coordinator, the PIC/AP Site Supervisor, or another designee, who can look up this eligibility code after confirming the adult is authorized to pick up the child.