Austin ISD's 2026-27 year runs Tuesday, August 18, 2026 to Thursday, May 27, 2027. The breaks are the familiar three — the whole of Thanksgiving week (the district calls it Fall Break), December 21 through January 4, and March 15–19 — but the days that catch families out are the ones in between: a run of staff development days in August before classes start, student holidays on September 21, October 9 and 12, November 2 and 3, January 4, February 15, March 10, March 26 and April 30, and two of those Fridays doubling as bad weather make-up days.
Below is the district's Important Dates list, every line, with Austin ISD's own wording kept intact and the grading-period brackets read off its month grids — then how to get it onto your phone next to the team schedules.
Source: Austin ISD 2026-2027 Calendar, Revised & Final (PDF) and the district's calendar page. Last checked November 9, 2026. The document is headed "Revised & Final" and its title carries the date May 21, 2026 (the PDF itself was created May 26, 2026). It is the district-wide calendar; Austin ISD publishes a separate 2026-27 ADSY (Additional Days School Year) calendar for participating campuses, which is not reproduced here.
Every date below is copied from the district's own published calendar, not estimated. Districts do revise mid-year, so confirm against the source before you book anything around a date.
34 published entries, 19 of them closures or breaks. A single entry can cover a span of days. Labels are the district's wording.
| Date | What the district calls it |
|---|---|
| Jul 1–3, 2026 | District Closed |
| Sat, Jul 4, 2026 | Independence Day Holiday |
| Aug 3–5, 2026 | New Teacher Orientation |
| Aug 6, 10 and 14, 2026 | Campus Staff Development / Student HolidayNo school |
| Aug 7 and 17, 2026 | Teacher Planning / Student HolidayNo school |
| Aug 11–12, 2026 | District Staff Development / Student HolidayNo school |
| Thu, Aug 13, 2026 | Campus & District Staff Development / Student HolidayNo school |
| Tue, Aug 18, 2026 | First Day of ClassesFirst / last day |
| Mon, Sep 7, 2026 | Labor Day HolidayNo school |
| Mon, Sep 21, 2026 | Student Holiday / PLED Day / Yom KippurNo school |
| Thu, Oct 8, 2026 | Grading period ends ("]" on the month grid) |
| Fri, Oct 9, 2026 | Student / Staff Holiday / [Bad Weather Makeup Day]No school |
| Mon, Oct 12, 2026 | Indigenous People Day / Elementary & Secondary Parent Conference (a student holiday — see the notes)No school |
| Tue, Oct 13, 2026 | Grading period begins ("[" on the month grid) |
| Mon, Nov 2, 2026 | Student / Staff HolidayNo school |
| Tue, Nov 3, 2026 | Student Holiday / Campus Staff Development / Culture of VotingNo school |
| Sun, Nov 8, 2026 | Diwali |
| Nov 23–27, 2026 | Fall BreakNo school |
| Fri, Dec 18, 2026 | Grading period ends ("]" on the month grid) |
| Dec 21, 2026 – Jan 4, 2027 | Winter BreakNo school |
| Mon, Jan 4, 2027 | Staff Development / Student HolidayNo school |
| Tue, Jan 5, 2027 | Grading period begins ("[" on the month grid) |
| Mon, Jan 18, 2027 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday; student / Staff HolidayNo school |
| Mon, Feb 15, 2027 | Campus Staff Development / Student Holiday / President's DayNo school |
| Wed, Mar 10, 2027 | Student Holiday / Eid al-Fitr / Elementary & Secondary Parent ConferenceNo school |
| Fri, Mar 12, 2027 | Grading period ends ("]" on the month grid) |
| Mar 15–19, 2027 | Spring BreakNo school |
| Mon, Mar 22, 2027 | Grading period begins ("[" on the month grid) |
| Fri, Mar 26, 2027 | Student / Staff Holiday / Good Friday / [Bad Weather Makeup Day]No school |
| Fri, Apr 30, 2027 | Student Holiday / PLED DayNo school |
| Thu, May 27, 2027 | Last Day of Classes for StudentsFirst / last day |
| Fri, May 28, 2027 | Teacher Planning Day / Last Day for Teachers |
| Mon, May 31, 2027 | Memorial Day Holiday |
| Mon, Jun 21, 2027 | Juneteenth Holiday Observance Day |
The calendar the district links today is headed "2026 - 2027 Calendar - Revised & Final", and the PDF's own title records it as the "Revised 26-27 Academic Calendar 05.21.2026". If you saved an earlier version of the 2026-27 calendar, compare it against this one. The district also publishes a separate 2026-27 ADSY (Additional Days School Year) calendar for participating campuses; if your school is one of them, its dates differ and are not on this page.
Students are out on every date labelled "Student Holiday" or "Student / Staff Holiday": in August the 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 17th; then September 21 (PLED Day / Yom Kippur), October 9, November 2, November 3 (Campus Staff Development / Culture of Voting), January 4, February 15 (President's Day), March 10 (Eid al-Fitr and parent conferences), March 26 (Good Friday) and April 30 (PLED Day). Two of them carry the document's "[Bad Weather Makeup Day]**" marker: Friday, October 9 and Friday, March 26. If the district has to make up a weather closure, one of those becomes a school day.
The English list reads "Indigenous People Day / Elementary & Secondary Parent Conference /" with no holiday wording, but the grid shades October 12 in the legend's "Campus Staff Development / Student Holiday" colour, and the Spanish page of the same PDF lists it as "Feriado para estudiantes / Conferencias con padres de primaria y secundaria / Día de los Pueblos Indígenas" — a student holiday. March 10 is the same pairing (parent conferences on a student holiday), and there the English list does say "Student Holiday".
The legend's "[ ]" marks sit at the three breaks between grading periods — "]" on October 8 and "[" on October 13, "]" on December 18 and "[" on January 5, "]" on March 12 and "[" on March 22. The first period opens with the first day of classes and the last closes with the last day; the grid does not bracket either of those. Note the first one ends on a Thursday — Friday, October 9 and Monday, October 12 are both student holidays — and the last one begins the Monday after spring break. The document does not print a day count for any period or an instructional-day total for the year.
The calendar carries no "subject to change" line and no early-release days. A single "*" sits beside October 12 and March 10 on the grids and is not defined anywhere in the legend or the list (the "**" is the bad-weather marker). Diwali (Sunday, November 8) is listed under Important Dates without any holiday wording, and July 1–4, 2026, May 31 and June 21, 2027 are staff work-year entries outside the student year, so they are left unbadged above.
The quick way: create a free Schedule Caddie account from this page and the 2026-27 calendar above is already on it as your own schedule — the version we verified on November 9, 2026, yours to edit. If Austin ISD revises the calendar later, upload the new version and you see exactly which days changed before approving them.
Doing it yourself, or a different district:
The district publishes this calendar as a document, not a feed you can subscribe to. Schedule Caddie reads that document for you: download the 2026-27 calendar from the district (the source link above), upload it as a PDF, PNG, or JPG up to 10MB, and it pulls out the no-school days, breaks, early releases with their dismissal times, teacher days, and the first and last day of school.
Nothing is saved until you have looked at it. Every day it found shows up as its own row with the date and label, you uncheck what you don't want and fix anything it misread, and only then does it land on your family calendar, color-coded as School so a holiday Monday reads differently from a 4pm practice. Team schedules you have added as calendar links keep refreshing on their own; the school year sits beside them.
Either way it travels like anything else on your Schedule Caddie calendar: subscribe to your Schedule Caddie link in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and the school days come along.
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The first day of classes is Tuesday, August 18, 2026 and the last day of classes for students is Thursday, May 27, 2027. Teachers have a planning day on Friday, May 28, listed as their last day. Before classes start, August 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17 are all staff development or teacher planning days labelled "Student Holiday".
Monday, March 15 through Friday, March 19, 2027. Classes resume Monday, March 22, which also begins the final grading period. The following Friday, March 26, is a student and staff holiday (Good Friday) that doubles as a bad weather make-up day.
The calendar calls Thanksgiving week "Fall Break": Monday, November 23 through Friday, November 27, 2026. Winter Break runs December 21, 2026 through January 4, 2027; January 4 is also listed separately as "Staff Development / Student Holiday", so students return Tuesday, January 5, the first day of the third grading period.
Friday, October 9, 2026 and Friday, March 26, 2027, each marked "[Bad Weather Makeup Day]**" in the Important Dates list. Both are student and staff holidays unless the district needs one to make up a closure.
The document the district links is headed "Revised & Final", with a title carrying the date May 21, 2026 (the PDF itself was created May 26, 2026). Participating ADSY (Additional Days School Year) campuses follow a separate calendar that the district publishes alongside it.
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