The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County today adopted a 2026-2027 school year calendar that calls for classes to begin for students on Monday, August 24, 2026, and end on Friday, June 11, 2027.
The Board made several changes to the calendar recommended by the Anne Arundel County Public Schools Calendar Committee last month. To accommodate the shift of the first day of classes from the committee’s recommended date of August 19, 2026, the adopted calendar calls for schools to be open for students from December 21-23, 2026.
The Board also shifted the partial-day schedules on the four Unity Days in the calendar from two-hour late arrivals to two-hour early dismissals for students. Those four days are the only partial student days in the calendar.
Other key parts of the calendar include:
A five-day Thanksgiving break for students.
A seven-day Easter/Spring break for students beginning on Friday, March 26, 2027, and continuing through the week after Easter. That is a shift from the break occurring before Easter as it has in recent years.
Four non-student days following the last day of each marking period to allow for teachers to complete grades and other staff to engage in professional development.
Closings on Yom Kippur, Election Day, and Eid al-Fitr.
A non-student day in November for elementary and middle school students only. High schools will operate on normal schedules on this day.
Closings of high schools on the day of their graduations.
Three built-in inclement weather days which would be deducted from the end of the school year if not used.
Utilizing flexibility legislation passed by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Wes Moore earlier this year, the calendar contains 177 instructional days but sufficient seat hours at all levels to comply with State law.
The complete calendar can be found at www.aacps.org/calendar.
To allow families to better plan schedules around the school calendar, the Board will consider adoption of the 2027-2028 calendar this spring. The 2028-2029 calendar will be presented to the Board next fall.