Scotch Plains-Fanwood Public Schools Calendar 2026-27

The SPF 2026-27 calendar

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

Add the SPF calendar to your phone

Pick a file. Each one is an all-day event per day off or half day, 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.

SPF vacations and holidays, 2026-27

Every day with no school for students, from the first day to the last: 13 entries and 30 weekdays in all.

SPF early release days

Seven early release days in all. Four are for every school. The other three are for some schools only.

Where the time varies by school, your school sends its own dismissal time.

Calendar notes: what to plan around

Long weekends and breaks

Every stretch of three or more days with no school, counting weekends. A half day next to a weekend adds half a day.

• 4-day weekend: Friday, Sept. 4 to Monday, Sept. 7. Labor Day weekend. Back Tuesday, Sept. 8.
• 3-day weekend: Saturday, Sept. 19 to Monday, Sept. 21. Yom Kippur. Back Tuesday, Sept. 22.
• 3-day weekend: Saturday, Oct. 10 to Monday, Oct. 12. Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day, staff PD (no school for students). Back Tuesday, Oct. 13.
• 9 days off in a row: Saturday, Oct. 31 to Sunday, Nov. 8. Fall break. Back Monday, Nov. 9.
• 4.5-day weekend: Wednesday, Nov. 25 at early dismissal to Sunday, Nov. 29. Single session before Thanksgiving early release and Thanksgiving break. Back Monday, Nov. 30.
• 11.5 days off in a row: Wednesday, Dec. 23 at early dismissal to Sunday, Jan. 3. Single session before winter break early release and winter break. Back Monday, Jan. 4.
• 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.
• 9 days off in a row: Saturday, March 20 to Sunday, March 28. Spring break (includes Good Friday). Back Monday, March 29.
• 4-day weekend: Thursday, April 22 to Sunday, April 25. Passover. Back Monday, April 26.
• 4-day weekend: Friday, May 28 to Monday, May 31. May 28 closing (if no emergency days are used) and Memorial Day. Back Tuesday, June 1.

Weeks with fewer than five school days

Thirteen weeks have fewer than five school days, and three weeks have none at all.

Teacher workdays: no school for students

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

• Monday, Oct. 12: Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day, staff PD (no school for students)

Makeup days

Emergency makeup day (May 28), Friday, May 28 (if any of the three built-in emergency days is used) and Spring break makeup day, Monday, March 22 (only if more emergency days are needed than the three built in; further days come from spring break after it).

Also worth knowing

• School is open on some federal holidays: Veterans Day (Wednesday, Nov. 11) and Juneteenth (Friday, June 18). Banks, post offices and many offices close; school does not.
• The calendar marks four religious and cultural observances on school days. School is open. The list is below.
• The district calendar prints no testing dates.
• Some days off may change: spring break (includes Good Friday), March 22 to 26 (If more emergency days are needed than the three built into the calendar, they are taken from spring break, starting with March 22) and May 28 closing (if no emergency days are used), May 28 (No school only if no emergency days are used; once one is used it stays a school day).
• After the last day, the calendar still shows staff flex PD day (after the last day) (June 25). Students are already out.

First and last day of school

The first day of school is Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. The last day is Thursday, June 24, 2027, with early dismissal.

Teachers start sooner. Staff days before school run Aug. 31 to Sept. 1.

Grading periods

Grades 6-12 marking periods

Religious and cultural observances

The calendar marks these religious and cultural observances. School is open on each.

What the district notes

• The calendar prints 183 student days, with three emergency days built in. Our count of 182 leaves out Friday, May 28, which is a day off only if no emergency days are used. Staff work 187 days.
• Single session dismissal times: grades K-4 at 12:40 p.m., middle schools (grades 5-8) at 12:20 p.m., the high school at 12:08 p.m. and full-day preschool at 1 p.m.
• Each back to school night is a single session day for that level only: elementary schools Sept. 17, Nettingham and Terrill middle schools Sept. 24 and the high school Oct. 1.
• Elementary report cards: grades 1-5 trimesters end Dec. 10, March 18 and June 18 (report cards Dec. 17, April 1 and June 24); preschool and kindergarten semesters end Feb. 3 and June 18 (report cards Feb. 10 and June 24).
• The calendar does not mark the December conference days as single session days.
• Graduation is on the last day, Thursday, June 24.

How we checked these dates

We read every date off the district's own calendar twice: once from the PDF's text and once from the image, cell by cell against its legend. Then we checked each one against the SPF District Calendar page, the district's Holidays & Single Session Days calendar, the district's Marking Period Report Card Calendar page and the district's School Schedule page.

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