Fairfax County runs a long, late year: the first day of school is Monday, August 24, 2026 and the last day is Wednesday, June 16, 2027, with Veterans Day kept as a school day this year so that June 16 holds. The days that trip parents up are not the big breaks but the scattered ones — a Monday-Tuesday off in early November, a Friday-Monday pair at the end of January, two more at the end of April, and four quarter-end afternoons when every student goes home two hours early.
Below is the full FCPS Standard School Year Calendar, every row, with the district's own labels (including the religious and cultural observances it lists, most of which are not days off) — then how to get it onto your phone next to the team schedules.
Source: FCPS 2026-2027 Standard School Year Calendar (PDF) and fcps.edu/calendars. Last checked November 6, 2026. The one-page calendar is marked "Updated 9/29/26"; the fcps.edu text table lists the same dates, and the page states "Dates are subject to change. Any changes will be communicated as early as possible." It is the Standard School Year Calendar for FCPS schools; individual schools add their own early release dates.
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.
52 published entries, 20 of them closures or breaks and 3 flagged early release. A single entry can cover a span of days. Labels are the district's wording.
| Date | What the district calls it |
|---|---|
| Fri, Jul 3, 2026 | Holiday | Independence Day (Observed)No school |
| Aug 10–13, 2026 | New Teacher Training |
| Aug 14, 17–21, 2026 | Professional Workdays for Staff | 14 – Teacher Workday, 17 – School Planning Day, 18 – Teacher Workday, 19 – Staff Development Day, 20 – Teacher Workday, 21 – School Planning Day |
| Mon, Aug 24, 2026 | First Day of SchoolFirst / last day |
| Sep 4 and 7, 2026 | Holidays | Labor Day BreakNo school |
| Fri, Sep 11, 2026 | Rosh Hashanah, Religious and Cultural Observance (Evening Only) |
| Sat, Sep 12, 2026 | Rosh Hashanah (begins sundown 9/11 – sundown 9/13) |
| Mon, Sep 21, 2026 | Holiday | Yom Kippur (begins sundown 9/20 – sundown 9/21)No school |
| Mon, Oct 12, 2026 | Student Holiday (School Planning Day for Staff) | Indigenous Peoples' DayNo school |
| Fri, Oct 30, 2026 | End of First Quarter | 2-hour Early ReleaseEarly release |
| Nov 1–2, 2026 | All Saints' Day / Día de los Muertos | Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Mon, Nov 2, 2026 | Student Holiday (School Planning Day for Staff)No school |
| Tue, Nov 3, 2026 | Student Holiday (Teacher Workday for Staff) | Election DayNo school |
| Sun, Nov 8, 2026 | Diwali |
| Wed, Nov 11, 2026 | Veterans Day (a regular instructional day in 2026-27, per the School Board) |
| Nov 25–27, 2026 | Holidays | Thanksgiving BreakNo school |
| Fri, Dec 4, 2026 | Chanukah, Religious and Cultural Observance (Evening Only); Chanukah begins sundown 12/4 – sundown 12/12 |
| Tue, Dec 8, 2026 | Bodhi Day | Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Dec 21, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027 | Holidays | Winter BreakNo school |
| Fri, Dec 25, 2026 | Christmas |
| Fri, Jan 1, 2027 | Holiday | New Year's DayNo school |
| Wed, Jan 6, 2027 | Three Kings Day/Epiphany | Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Thu, Jan 7, 2027 | Orthodox Christmas | Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Mon, Jan 18, 2027 | Holiday | Martin Luther King Jr.'s BirthdayNo school |
| Tue, Jan 19, 2027 | Orthodox Epiphany | Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Thu, Jan 28, 2027 | End of Second Quarter | 2-hour Early ReleaseEarly release |
| Fri, Jan 29, 2027 | Student Holiday (Teacher Workday for Staff)No school |
| Mon, Feb 1, 2027 | Student Holiday (Staff Development Day for Staff)No school |
| Sat, Feb 6, 2027 | Lunar New Year |
| Mon, Feb 8, 2027 | First Full Day of Ramadan (begins sundown 2/7 and continues with daily fast and nightly prayer until 3/8) | Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Wed, Feb 10, 2027 | Ash Wednesday |
| Mon, Feb 15, 2027 | Holiday | Washington's Birthday and Presidents' DayNo school |
| Mon, Mar 8, 2027 | Eid al-Fitr, Religious and Cultural Observance (Evening Only) |
| Tue, Mar 9, 2027 | Holiday | Eid al-Fitr (begins sundown 3/8 – sundown 3/9)No school |
| Wed, Mar 10, 2027 | Eid al-Fitr | Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Sat, Mar 20, 2027 | Nowruz |
| Mar 22–26, 2027 | Holidays | Spring BreakNo school |
| Fri, Mar 26, 2027 | Good Friday |
| Sun, Mar 28, 2027 | Easter |
| Fri, Apr 16, 2027 | End of Third Quarter | 2-hour Early ReleaseEarly release |
| Mon, Apr 19, 2027 | Student Holiday (Teacher Workday for Staff)No school |
| Tue, Apr 20, 2027 | Student Holiday (Staff Development Day) | Theravada New YearNo school |
| Wed, Apr 21, 2027 | First Evening of Passover (begins sundown 4/21 – sundown 4/29), Religious and Cultural Observance (Evening Only) |
| Thu, Apr 22, 2027 | Second Evening of Passover, Religious and Cultural Observance (Evening Only) |
| Fri, Apr 30, 2027 | Orthodox Good Friday, Religious and Cultural Observance |
| Sun, May 2, 2027 | Orthodox Easter |
| Mon, May 17, 2027 | Holiday | Eid al-Adha (begins sundown 5/16 – sundown 5/17)No school |
| Mon, May 31, 2027 | Holiday | Memorial DayNo school |
| Wed, Jun 16, 2027 | Last Day of School / Early Release | Two-hour day for middle and high school students | Two-hour early release for elementary school studentsFirst / last day |
| Thu, Jun 17, 2027 | Staff Development Day for Staff |
| Fri, Jun 18, 2027 | Holiday | Juneteenth (Observed)No school |
| Mon, Jun 21, 2027 | Teacher Workday |
The calendar uses three kinds of row. "Holiday" days (Labor Day Break, Yom Kippur, Winter Break, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and so on) close schools for everyone. "Student Holiday" days are staff workdays — School Planning, Teacher Workday or Staff Development — so students stay home while teachers work: October 12, November 2 and 3, January 29, February 1, April 19 and April 20. "Religious and Cultural Observance" rows such as Diwali, Bodhi Day, Lunar New Year or Nowruz are listed for awareness and are ordinary school days unless the same row also says Holiday.
Each quarter ends on a 2-hour early release: Friday, October 30 (first quarter, 46 days), Thursday, January 28 (second quarter, 48 days), Friday, April 16 (third quarter, 47 days) and Wednesday, June 16 (fourth quarter, 39 days), which is also the last day of school — "two-hour day for middle and high school students" and a "two-hour early release for elementary school students". The PDF's legend marks these "2 Hours Early" for all school levels.
The legend lists two more early release types without dates: "Limited Early Release Wednesdays" at 3 hours early for elementary schools (with a pointer to fcps.edu/ler-wednesdays), and "School-Specific Early Release, as Needed" for middle and high schools, which "varies by school". The calendar's footnote says it plainly: "Specific dismissal times may vary by school. Schools will communicate applicable early release dates and dismissal times directly to families." Your school's own calendar is the source for those.
November 11 appears on the calendar only as "Veterans Day", with no Holiday marker — the PDF grid shows it as a regular instructional day. An FCPS bulletin of April 15, 2026 explains that the School Board designated Veterans Day a regular instructional day for 2026-27, and that the year now ends Wednesday, June 16, 2027 as a result.
The calendar carries the caveat "Some holidays and observances, such as Eid al-Fitr, may shift due to anticipated lunar sightings." The September 29 update already moved Eid al-Fitr from the April printing: the Holiday is now Tuesday, March 9, 2027, with evening-only observance on March 8 and an observance on March 10. Eid al-Adha is a Holiday on Monday, May 17, 2027. If either shifts again, the district says it will say so as early as possible.
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 6, 2026, yours to edit. If Fairfax County 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:
Fairfax County Public Schools also publishes this calendar as a subscribable feed (Subscribe to the Standard School Year Calendar (fcps.edu)). Paste that link into Schedule Caddie and the district days land on the same colour-coded family calendar as everything else, re-checked hourly; or download the 2026-27 calendar (the source link above) and 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.
Add it to my calendarFree account. How the upload and review step work, in detail: school calendars on Schedule Caddie.
The first day of school is Monday, August 24, 2026 and the last day of school is Wednesday, June 16, 2027. June 16 is also an early release: a two-hour day for middle and high school students and a two-hour early release for elementary students.
Labor Day Break is Friday, September 4 and Monday, September 7, 2026. Thanksgiving Break is Wednesday–Friday, November 25–27. Winter Break runs Monday, December 21, 2026 through Sunday, January 3, 2027, with school resuming Monday, January 4. Spring Break is Monday–Friday, March 22–26, 2027.
Yes. Tuesday, November 3, 2026 is a Student Holiday (Teacher Workday for Staff) and the Monday before it, November 2, is a Student Holiday (School Planning Day for Staff), so students have a four-day weekend from Saturday, October 31 through Tuesday, November 3. Friday, October 30 before it is the 2-hour early release that ends the first quarter.
The district calendar lists four 2-hour early releases for all levels: October 30, 2026, January 28, 2027, April 16, 2027 and June 16, 2027 (the last day of school). Elementary schools also have Limited Early Release Wednesdays at three hours early, and middle and high schools may have school-specific early releases; those dates are not printed on the Standard School Year Calendar and are communicated by each school.
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