Tomball ISD approved its school calendars for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years during its school board meeting Feb. 8. Changes to the calendars for the upcoming school years include student holidays the Monday before Election Day and the number of half-days being reduced, according to the district’s website.

Student holidays for both school years include Independence Day, Labor Day, the day before and the day of Election Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday and Memorial Day. The day before Election Day was made a holiday due to the high number of absences reported this past year with Election Day being a holiday, the website said.

For the 2022-23 school year, classes will begin Aug. 16, 2022, and end May 25, 2023. The first day of school will be Aug. 15, 2023, and school will end May 23, 2024, for the following school year.

The last day of each semester will be a half-day for students, but all other half-days have been eliminated, the district’s website said.