Students going to one Cedar Rapids school will no longer attend year-round classes.

Monday night, the school board approved a new school calendar that aligns Taylor Elementary School with the other schools in the district.

Classes will continue as normal for students at Taylor Elementary through June 1st. Students will then get a summer break and start the new class schedule with the rest of the district in late August.

District leaders say they've been considering this change for some time, and they looked at several studies and asked parents for feedback before making the decision.

"At Taylor what we were seeing is that the academic need is so great that are we losing a little bit of ground even if it's just three weeks, because we weren't providing anything during that intersession time." Val Dolezal said.

With the new calendar change, Taylor will also participate in the seven-week Kids on Course University Program. The school expects about 150 kids to be part of the program.

Kids on Course offers students extra help in reading, writing and math.

The school district says this calendar change will also allow teachers from several schools to share more resources.