Counseling: Aikin has two counselors: Karen Raney and Lindsey Jones. The counselors at Aikin help the students with things like problem solving, understanding feelings, making friends, and dealing with conflict. They also do individual counseling at teacher or parent request.
 

Renaissance Learning:  Renaissance Learning provides a suite of products utilized on the Aikin campus for reading and math assessment and instruction. Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math provide first-class reading and math practice, while STAAR Assessments allow teachers to monitor student progress on a regular basis.
 

ESL: students with limited English proficiency attend class to advance English language skills.  

Reading Recovery: Reading Recovery is an early intervention program in which specially trained teachers work with individual first grade students who come into first grade not performing at the average band of their peers.