About SchoolHolidays.com
SchoolHolidays.com is your easy guide to U.S. school holidays by state, helping families, students, and educators quickly find accurate school break dates in one place. We make it easy to check school calendars across the United States, without needing to search through dozens of school district websites.
Our site covers the most important school year dates, including the first and last day of school, summer break, winter break, spring break, and major public holidays. You can explore these dates using our interactive U.S. map or browse our U.S. State Directory to view school holidays for each state.
There is no single U.S. school calendar. Roughly 13,000 local school districts each adopt their own, so we are explicit about which of our dates come from an official calendar and which are estimates. The next section explains how.
Whether you're looking for American school holidays 2026, future school break dates (e.g. 2027) or general information about when the U.S. schools start and finish, SchoolHolidays.com gives you clear, simple, and up-to-date information in an easy-to-use format.
Our goal is to provide accurate, easy-to-understand school holiday calendars by state - so families can spend less time searching and more time planning and enjoying time together.
How we source our dates
District calendars: transcribed from the source
Each district calendar page is transcribed by hand from the calendar that district's school board published. Every page links to that calendar and shows the date we last checked it. If we cannot find a district's official calendar, we do not publish dates for it. Browse them from the U.S. state directory.
State pages: planning windows, labelled as such
A state page shows our estimate of when most schools in that state take each break. It is a planning aid for families comparing states or booking travel early, not any one district's calendar, and every state page says so. Federal holidays such as Labor Day, MLK Jr. Day and Memorial Day are computed from their legal definitions.
Reference data
District counts and enrollment come from the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data. State calendar laws come from the Education Commission of the States' 50-state comparison. Each page names its source and the year of the data.
Corrections
We audit the data and publish corrections. In September 2026 we rechecked every holiday defined by a weekday rule and corrected 270 that had landed on the wrong day of the week, and moved 103 break windows that had drifted off a Monday-to-Friday week back into place. If you find a date that does not match your district's calendar, please tell us.
For what the data shows across districts, see our research: how much U.S. school calendars differ and school calendar laws by state.