When does school start?
First days, last days, and every break for the 2026–27 school year — for 125 of the largest US school districts, checked against each district's own published calendar. No PDF downloads, no digging through district sites.
The big ones
- NYC Public Schools starts September 10, 2026
- Los Angeles Unified starts August 12, 2026
- Miami-Dade County Public Schools starts August 13, 2026
- Chicago Public Schools starts August 24, 2026
- Clark County School District starts August 10, 2026
- Broward County Public Schools starts August 10, 2026
- Hillsborough County Public Schools starts August 10, 2026
- Orange County Public Schools starts August 11, 2026
- Palm Beach County Schools starts August 10, 2026
- Gwinnett County Public Schools starts August 5, 2026
- Houston ISD starts August 10, 2026
- Fairfax County Public Schools starts August 24, 2026
By state
- Alabama 1 district
- Alaska 1 district
- Arizona 3 districts
- Arkansas 1 district
- California 6 districts
- Colorado 3 districts
- Connecticut 1 district
- Delaware 1 district
- Florida 13 districts
- Georgia 6 districts
- Hawaii 1 district
- Idaho 1 district
- Illinois 4 districts
- Indiana 1 district
- Iowa 1 district
- Kansas 1 district
- Kentucky 2 districts
- Louisiana 1 district
- Maine 1 district
- Maryland 7 districts
- Massachusetts 3 districts
- Michigan 1 district
- Minnesota 1 district
- Mississippi 1 district
- Missouri 1 district
- Montana 1 district
- Nebraska 1 district
- Nevada 1 district
- New Hampshire 1 district
- New Jersey 1 district
- New Mexico 1 district
- New York 1 district
- North Carolina 3 districts
- North Dakota 1 district
- Ohio 1 district
- Oklahoma 1 district
- Oregon 1 district
- Pennsylvania 1 district
- Rhode Island 1 district
- South Carolina 1 district
- South Dakota 1 district
- Tennessee 3 districts
- Texas 27 districts
- Utah 1 district
- Vermont 1 district
- Virginia 6 districts
- Washington 1 district
- West Virginia 1 district
- Wisconsin 3 districts
- Wyoming 1 district
Compare a metro at a glance
Plan further ahead
- When do schools start? — the first-day window in every state tracked here, side by side.
- When is spring break? — the same, for the week families book travel around.
- When is fall break? — which districts take a week off in the autumn, which take a long weekend, and how many take none.
- When is Thanksgiving break? — which districts take the whole week off, and which take the Thursday and the Friday.
- When is winter break? — the December dates, and the day students go back in January.
- When is the last day of school? — when the year ends, state by state.
- Is there school on Labor Day? — which districts close, and which have not started the year yet.
- Graduation year calculator — a birth date and a state, and the class year that follows.
- Kindergarten cutoff dates by state — the date a child has to turn five by, with the statute for each one.
- The 100th day of school — when each district hits day 100, counted from its own first day.
- MCPS, FCPS, CCSD, JCPS, LISD, KISD — six sets of initials that belong to more than one district. Which one did you mean?
Why trust these dates?
Every calendar here is read from the district's own published calendar — the source is named and linked on every page, along with the date we last checked it. When a district hasn't adopted next year's calendar yet, the page says so instead of guessing. How this site works.