Suffolk Public Schools hopes to raise enough money to send each student at its new-look elementary summer school back to regular school with a stocked backpack.

“Project Backpack” was started with a donation of $847 from Suffolk Women of the Moose, Chapter 1315 and Loyal Order of the Moose, Lodge 141.

Officials say it will cost about $2,000 for 500 fully loaded backpacks.

“We are still looking for the rest of the money to fund this,” Catherine Pichon, principal of the elementary summer school, said during Thursday’s School Board meeting.

A greater number of students are attending this year’s elementary summer school, renamed the “LEAP” program — short for Learning and Enrichment for Academic Progress.

Housed at Mack Benn Jr. Elementary School and for selected kindergarten through fifth-grade students, as well as rising kindergartners without preschool experience, it runs for six hours, four days a week, with “enrichment sessions” in the afternoon, and ends July 30.

Anyone wishing to support Project Backpack can email bethannebradshaw@spsk12.net or call 925-6752.