Summer Reading Program

Registration is open for the 2025 Summer Reading Program, a free initiative designed to serve 15,000 students from incoming kindergarteners to outgoing eighth graders with focused reading instruction in small groups with trained literacy instructors.  

The 2025 Summer Reading Program will run in June and July and is a collaboration between the New Mexico Public Education Department, Higher Education Department and Early Childhood Education and Care Department. Families can sign up for the program on the Summer Reading Program website. Visit: https://www.literacy.nm.gov

Focused summer instruction can help students catch up on important reading skills and gain the confidence needed for success in all school subjects. While students typically see a significant loss of reading knowledge over the summer break (third to fifth graders lose an average of 20% of the reading progress they made during the previous school year), students who participated in the 2024 Summer Reading Program showed zero summer reading loss and average gains of 4.92%, according to end-of-year and beginning-of-year assessments. 

A list of 2025 program locations is available on the Summer Reading Program website. The list will be updated as more partner sites are added.