During a Nov. 14 board meeting, Gina Peddy, executive director of curriculum and instruction, said the campus calendar committee and district advisory committee focused on consistency and balance in the amount of instruction days in each semester, built-in professional development days for staff and ending the school year prior to Memorial Day.
The calendar has 173 days of student instructional time, split between 85 days for the fall semester and 88 days in the spring semester. In 2022-23’s academic calendar, the fall semester had 81 days, while the spring semester was 92 days.
The first day of school is Aug. 15. Students will have Sept. 4 off for Labor Day and a long weekend Oct. 6-9, which includes Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 9.
Staff and students will have a week off Nov. 20-24 for Thanksgiving break, and the winter holiday will begin Dec. 22 before students return Jan. 9, 2024.
In the spring semester, professional development days are scheduled for Feb. 19 and April 1. Spring break will be March 11-15. The calendar also accounts for possible bad-weather makeup days March 29 and April 12.
The complete 2023-24 academic calendar can be found here.
