It’s time for us to get your input on the 2024-2025 school calendar!

Families and Staff Preferences

• Students start middle of August

• End the school year before June 1st

• One full week off at Thanksgiving

• At least two weeks off at Christmas (over 3 weekends, if possible)

• One week off for Spring Break

• Honor Traditional Holidays:
  Labor Day, MLK Jr. Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day

Texas Education Code Requirements:

• Must include a minimum of 75,600 instructional minutes

  • Currently each full day has 460 minutes, each Early Release Day has 280 minutes.

  • Approximately 1380-1840 extra minutes are included for bad weather.

  • After students start school, up to 2100 minutes of Professional Development (PD) may count towards instructional minutes. Each PD Day is worth 420 instructional minutes. 

• Teachers must have 187 work days

• Cannot finish the school year prior to May 15th