Duval County Public Schools Calendar 2026-27

The DCPS 2026-27 calendar

This is the district's own calendar, as DCPS publishes it. Tap it to open the full-size image.

Add the DCPS calendar to your phone

Pick a file. Each one is an all-day event per day off, and a break is one event across all its days.

On an iPhone

Tap a file above, then tap Add All. The dates go into the calendar you choose.

In Google Calendar

On a computer, open Google Calendar, then Settings, then Import & export. Choose the file and the calendar to add it to. The dates show up on your Android phone too.

In Outlook

Open the downloaded file, or in Outlook on the web go to Add calendar, then Upload from file.

These files are a copy of the calendar today. If the district changes a date, download the file again.

DCPS vacations and holidays, 2026-27

Every day with no school for students, from the first day to the last: 16 entries and 33 weekdays in all.

DCPS early release days

The district's 2026-27 calendar lists no early release days.

Schools can still send their own early dismissal notices, so watch for those.

Calendar notes: what to plan around

Long weekends and breaks

Every stretch of three or more days with no school, counting weekends.

• 3-day weekend: Saturday, Sept. 5 to Monday, Sept. 7. Labor Day. Back Tuesday, Sept. 8.
• 4-day weekend: Saturday, Oct. 10 to Tuesday, Oct. 13. Teacher planning day (no school for students) and professional development day (no school for students). Back Wednesday, Oct. 14.
• 9 days off in a row: Saturday, Nov. 21 to Sunday, Nov. 29. Thanksgiving break. Back Monday, Nov. 30.
• 18 days off in a row: Saturday, Dec. 19 to Tuesday, Jan. 5. Winter break, teacher planning day (no school for students) and professional development day (no school for students). Back Wednesday, Jan. 6.
• 3-day weekend: Saturday, Jan. 16 to Monday, Jan. 18. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Back Tuesday, Jan. 19.
• 3-day weekend: Saturday, Feb. 13 to Monday, Feb. 15. Presidents' Day. Back Tuesday, Feb. 16.
• 11 days off in a row: Thursday, March 11 to Sunday, March 21. Professional development day (no school for students), teacher planning day (no school for students) and spring break. Back Monday, March 22.
• 4-day weekend: Friday, March 26 to Monday, March 29. School holiday (schools and offices closed) and weather day 1 (no school unless needed). Back Tuesday, March 30.
• 3-day weekend: Saturday, April 24 to Monday, April 26. Weather day 2 (no school unless needed). Back Tuesday, April 27.

Weeks with fewer than five school days

Ten weeks have fewer than five school days, and four weeks have none at all.

Teacher workdays: no school for students

Six of the days off are staff days. Teachers work; students stay home. Plan child care as you would for a holiday.

• Monday, Oct. 12: teacher planning day (no school for students)
• Tuesday, Oct. 13: professional development day (no school for students)
• Monday, Jan. 4: teacher planning day (no school for students)
• Tuesday, Jan. 5: professional development day (no school for students)
• Thursday, March 11: professional development day (no school for students)
• Friday, March 12: teacher planning day (no school for students)

Makeup days

Weather day 1 (becomes a school day if needed), Monday, March 29 (used first if school days are lost to bad weather), Weather day 2 (becomes a school day if needed), Monday, April 26 (used second if school days are lost to bad weather), Weather day 3 (becomes a school day if needed), Tuesday, June 1 (used third if school days are lost to bad weather) and Weather day 4 (becomes a school day if needed), Wednesday, June 2 (used fourth if school days are lost to bad weather).

Also worth knowing

• The district's calendar lists no conference days. Schools set their own.
• The district's calendar lists no testing dates.
• Some days off may change: weather day 1 (no school unless needed), March 29 (No school unless school days are lost to bad weather. Weather days become school days in order: March 29, April 26, June 1, then June 2) and weather day 2 (no school unless needed), April 26 (No school unless school days are lost to bad weather. Weather days become school days in order: March 29, April 26, June 1, then June 2).
• The last day can move. If bad weather uses up the March 29 and April 26 weather days, June 1 and 2 become school days and the district adjusts the calendar. The planned last day is Friday, May 28; it can fall from Friday, May 28 to Wednesday, June 2.
• After the last day, the calendar still shows Memorial Day (May 31) and weather days 3 and 4 (used only if needed) (June 1). Students are already out.

First and last day of school

The first day of school is Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. The last day is Friday, May 28, 2027, as planned. It can fall anywhere from Friday, May 28 to Wednesday, June 2: If bad weather uses up the March 29 and April 26 weather days, June 1 and 2 become school days and the district adjusts the calendar.

Teachers start sooner. Staff days before school run Aug. 3 to 7.

Grading periods

The calendar prints only the end of each grading period; each one starts on the next school day.

What the district notes

• Duval posts its 2026-27 calendar only as a table on its website; it says it no longer produces calendar PDFs for public distribution. The image on this page is our screenshot of that table.
• The School Board approved this updated calendar on April 7, 2026. It closes schools for all of Thanksgiving week, both days before spring break (March 11 and 12) and Oct. 12 and 13, and keeps the first day, last day, winter break and spring break unchanged.
• Weather days that are not needed stay days off for students.

How we checked these dates

We read every date off the district's own calendar table, row by row, and took the image above from that table. Then we checked every day off from Oct. 9 on, the weather days and the Thanksgiving, October and March changes against the district's Academic Calendar 2026-2027 page, the district's news story on the approved 2026-27 calendar and the district events calendar. The other dates rest on the district's calendar alone.

Every weekday on this page matches its date. If the district changes its calendar, its page is the final word.