- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
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Future School Calendars: Approved
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Updated Feb. 16, 2024
At its Feb. 15 meeting, the Board of Education approved the School Year Calendars for 2024-25 and 2025-26.
Next Steps:
Color-coded, printer-friendly calendars will be created and posted on this page in the coming weeks, so continue to watch your inboxes! Until then, use the information and links below:
The basics for the 2024-25 School Year Calendar (calendar grid):
- Athletics begin: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
- Start Day for Students: Monday, August 26, 2024
- End Day for Students: Thursday, June 12, 2025
- Thanksgiving Break: Monday, Nov. 25-Friday, Nov. 29, 2024 (a full week off for students, three optional workdays for staff)
- Winter Break: Monday, Dec. 23, 2024-Friday, Jan. 3, 2025
- Spring Break: Monday, March 31-Friday, April 4, 2025
The basics for the 2025-26 School Year Calendar (calendar grid):
- Athletics begin: Thursday, July 31, 2025
- Start Day for Students: Monday, August 25, 2025
- End Day for Students: Thursday, June 11, 2026
- Thanksgiving Break: Monday, Nov. 24-Friday, Nov. 28, 2025 (a full week off for students, three optional workdays for staff)
- Winter Break: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025-Friday, Jan. 2, 2026
- Spring Break: Monday, March 30-Friday, April 3, 2026
How are the calendars created?
The development process began with the work of a CHCCS Calendar Committee which has approximately 50 members. Those members include PTA representatives from elementary, middle and high schools, teachers, certified and classified staff as well as community members. The committee met regularly during the fall and early winter. Additionally, members sought feedback from their school or community-based peers, colleagues and constituents as the drafts were developed, in order to ensure many ideas, questions and concerns could be addressed.
Reminder: According to North Carolina law, public schools can start no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and end no later than the Friday closest to June 11. The calendar must include 185 days or 1,025 hours for students. CHCCS currently follows the 1,025 instructional hour requirement for students to be in school, instead of the 185 day requirement. Teachers must work for 215 days.
You can see the full list of calendar requirements at this link: NC SCHOOL CALENDAR LAW.
What’s noteworthy about these calendars?
In order to assist with long-term planning, the current effort involves drafting calendars two school years in advance. The Calendar Committee reconvenes in November 2024 to begin working on drafting a calendar for 2026-27.
Also, when applicable, CHCCS strives to observe holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Diwali, the Lunar New Year and Eid al-Fitr through the strategic placement of a limited number of Teacher Workdays (no school for students.) Additional holidays are observed when students have full weeks off such as Thanksgiving week, Winter Break and Spring Break. Unfortunately, public school districts are unable to observe every holiday and still meet minimum instructional-hours requirements for students given the constraints of North Carolina school calendar laws.
Printable School Year Calendars (PDF)
Current School Year Calendars
- Select Your Calendar
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - English
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Spanish
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Arabic
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Burmese
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Chinese
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - French
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Japanese
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Karen
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Kinyarwanda
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Korean
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Pashto
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Portuguese
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Russian
- 2023-2024 School Year Calendar - Swahili
Future School Calendars
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The 2024-25 and 2025-26 calendars were approved by the Board of Education on February 15, 2024.
- English 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- English 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Spanish 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Spanish 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Arabic 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Arabic 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Chinese 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Chinese 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- French 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- French 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Japanese 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Japanese 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Korean 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Korean 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Pashto 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Pashto 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Portuguese 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Portuguese 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Russian 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Russian 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Swahili 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Swahili 2025-26 School Year Calendar
- Turkish 2024-25 School Year Calendar
- Turkish 2025-26 School Year Calendar
Religious & Cultural Observances Dates
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Religious & Cultural Observances
This document was created with the assistance of various faith leaders, students, families and staff from our Chapel Hill-Carrboro community. It is a tool to be used for planning, scheduling and continued learning around major and/or significant religious and cultural observances that may not always be as well-known as others.
Some of the topics included are:
> Background information
> Celebrated observances
> Religious and cultural awareness and, where available,
> Additional resources for educators.Additionally, anyone who would like to comment or provide feedback on this calendar, please click this link.
CHCCS 2023_24 Religious_Cultural Observances Reference Document 12_2023.pdf 2.13 MB (Last Modified on January 2, 2024) -
Arabic, Religious & Cultural Observances
Arabic CHCCS 2023_24 Religious_Cultural Observances Reference Document 12_2023.pdf 2 MB (Last Modified on January 2, 2024) -
Chinese, Religious & Cultural Observances
Chinese CHCCS 2022_23 Religious_Cultural Observances rev 8_2023.pdf 1.2 MB (Last Modified on August 29, 2023) -
Spanish, Religious & Cultural Observances
SpanishCHCCS 2023_24 Religious_Cultural Observances Reference Document 12_2023.pdf 787.54 KB (Last Modified on January 3, 2024)
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