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NEW YORK CITY - Kids, it's almost here!
SCHOOL CALENDAR: JANUARY l FEBRUARY l MARCH l APRIL l MAY l JUNE
Winter recess for New York City Public School students begins Monday, Dec. 23 and lasts through Wednesday, Jan. 1.
NYC public school calendar
You can access the school calendar online. You'll find important dates there and links to download the calendar in several languages. And sorry kids, but snow days are a thing of the past.
Two young girls sledding on snow at Riverside Park in Manhattan, NYC. (Photo by: Peter Titmuss/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
"On 'Snow days' or days when school buildings are closed due to an emergency, all students and families should plan on participating in remote learning," the Department of Education states.
Here's a look at the rest of the school calendar:
January
- January 20 (Monday): Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, schools closed
- January 21–24 (Tues-Friday): Regents Administration
- January 27 (Monday): Professional Development Day
- January 28 (Tuesday): First day of Spring Semester
- January 29 (Wednesday): Lunar New Year, schools closed
February
- February 17–21 (Monday–Friday): Midwinter recess, schools closed.
March
- March 6 (Thursday): Afternoon and evening parent-teacher conferences for elementary schools and pre-K Centers; students in these schools dismissed three hours early
- March 13 (Thursday): Afternoon and evening parent-teacher conferences for middle schools and D75 schools, students in these schools dismissed three hours early
- March 20 (Thursday): Evening parent-teacher conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools
- March 21 (Friday): Afternoon parent-teacher conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools; students in these schools dismissed three hours early
- March 31 (Monday): Eid al-Fitr, schools closed
April
- April 14–18 (Monday–Friday): Spring recess, schools closed
May
- May 1 (Thursday): Evening parent-teacher conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K Centers
- May 8 (Thursday): Evening parent-teacher conferences for middle schools and D75 schools
- May 15 (Thursday): Evening parent-teacher conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools
- May 16 (Friday): Afternoon parent-teacher conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools
- May 26 (Monday): Memorial Day, schools closed
June
- June 5 (Thursday): Eid al-Adha / Anniversary Day; schools closed
- June 6 (Friday): Clerical Day; no classes for students attending 3-K, Pre-K, elementary schools, middle schools, K–12 schools, and standalone D75 programs
- June 10 (Tuesday): The first administration of the new Regents Examinations in Life Science: Biology, and Earth and Space Sciences
- June 11 (Wednesday): The first administration of the new Regents Examination in Geometry
- June 17-26 (Tuesday-Thursday): Regents Administration
- June 19 (Thursday): Juneteenth, schools closed
- June 26 (Thursday): Last day of school for students