Proposed Calendars for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 School Years

Any feedback you have on the proposed draft calendars should be sent to your school's parent advisory council members. Please contact your school if you do not know your school's parent advisory council members. Please review the state legislative requirements for school calendars to ensure your suggestions are allowable under the legislation.

Link to Schools and their phone numbers: https://www.ncpschools.net/page/schools

School Calendars must meet the following requirements:

  1. Start date no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and end date no later than the Friday closest to June 11 (unless a weather related calendar waiver has been approved, year-round school, charter school, or cooperative innovative high school.)

  2. Covers at least nine calendar months.

  3. Must have a minimum of 185 days OR 1,025 hours of instruction.

  4. Must have at least nine (9) teacher workdays.

  5. Local Boards shall designate two (2) workdays on which teachers may take accumulated vacation leave.

  6. Have a minimum of ten (10) annual vacation leave days.

  7. Have the same or an equivalent number of legal holidays occurring within the school calendar as those designated by the State Personnel Commission for State employees.

  8. School shall not be held on Sunday.

  9. Veterans Day shall be a holiday for all public school personnel and for all students enrolled in the public schools.

  10. School staff must work exactly 215 days including student days, teacher work days, holidays, and annual leave days.

Please keep in mind that these calendars are just DRAFTS they are NOT FINAL and are open to feedback at this time.