What you need to know
The calendar begins the school year for students Aug. 13 and ending May 28.
Students will be at campuses for 170 days throughout the school year, while teachers will be on campuses for 187 days. For students, approximately 38 school days are reserved for breaks, holidays and staff planning days.
Staff and student holidays include:
- Sept. 1
- Oct. 10, 13
- Nov. 11, 24-28
- Dec. 22-Jan. 2
- Jan. 19
- March 9-13
- April 3, 24
- May 25
For elementary students, the day will be change from 7:30 a.m-3 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m.
Bell schedules for middle school students will change from 8:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m. to 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., and the high school schedule will change from 8:45 a.m.-4:35 p.m. to 8:40 a.m.-4:20 p.m.
The full calendar with all days that students will not be on campus can be found here.
What else?
One change between calendar for the upcoming school year and previous calendars is the reduction of early release days.
In the 2024-25 school year, the calendar has early release day prior to breaks. The calendar for the 2025-26 school year only has one early release day on the last day of school, May 28.
Deputy Superintendent Mary Duhart-Toppen said surrounding school districts have removed the half days before breaks in an effort to improve average daily attendance.
“Our attendance takes a massive hit on those days, because students do not come to school,” she said. “You are only in school from three and a half hours to four hours, so parents keep their students at home.”
The dates for spring break are scheduled to line up with the spring break dates of the Alamo Colleges District to ensure that students in the duel-enrollment program and other programs with the college have the same break times.
