<P> Year - round schooling (YRS) has been present from the 1900s . YRS first appeared in urban areas, because they were not tied to the agriculture cycle . The first towns that implemented YRS were Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Buffalo, and Detroit . These towns had schools sessions for 48 or more weeks at a time . The types of school schedules that were used were the 12 - 1 (12 weeks in school with 1 week break between the 12 weeks, which was more popular) and 12 - 4 (4 weeks off in August and school ran continuous after). The first summer school was introduced in 1865 at the First Church of Boston, MA . In 1916 there would be 200 elementary schools offering summer school . In 1971, a survey showed that 84% of the surveyed educational authorities predicted that all United States schools would be year - round within 15 years . In 1973, states that provided year - round schooling options were: Washington, Nevada, California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, Vermont, and Kentucky . </P> <P> Some businesses dislike year - round calendars, because there is more competition for students trying to get jobs on their vacations since not all students have the same vacation time . Businesses also find it easier to provide jobs on a year - round basis instead of having many in the summer for students . Year - round schools also allow for students to graduate at different times, allowing for a decrease in unemployment when compared to all students graduating together and trying to get the few jobs that are open during that time . Businesses also do not have the trouble of having a large volume of employees trying to take off the same vacation time for children getting out of school for winter, since the children would have different vacations . Schools that adopt YRS are also better for industries that have a high volume of people in a short amount of time, because the different vacations allow for students to be open for employment more readily and vacationers to be more spread out instead of all at once . Some tourist destinations that are very popular in colder months would benefit from this . </P>

When was the first year round school established