Fulton County's 2026-27 year starts early and ends early: Monday, August 3, 2026 to Thursday, May 27, 2027, 179 instructional days split 88 and 91 across two semesters. The breaks come as full weeks once you add the teacher workdays that bracket them — Fall Break September 21–23 plus workdays on the 24th and 25th, Winter Break February 15–17 plus workdays on the 18th and 19th, Thanksgiving week, December 21 through January 4, and Spring Break April 5–9. Election Day, November 3, is a remote learning day rather than a day off.
Below is the district's dated list, every line, with Fulton County Schools' own wording kept intact — then how to get it onto your phone next to the team schedules.
Source: FCS 2026-2027 School Calendar, Approved 12/19/2024 (PDF) and the district's text version of the same calendar. Last checked November 9, 2026. The calendar is headed 'Approved 12/19/2024' and is the version the district's calendar page links today; it covers the student calendar only, and the district tells staff to use their separate employee work calendars.
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.
23 published entries, 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Sat, Jul 4, 2026 | Independence DayNo school |
| Jul 27–31, 2026 | Professional Development/Teacher Workday (students off)No school |
| Mon, Aug 3, 2026 | First Day of SchoolFirst / last day |
| Mon, Sep 7, 2026 | Labor DayNo school |
| Sep 21–23, 2026 | Fall BreakNo school |
| Sep 24–25, 2026 | Professional Development/Teacher Workday (students off)No school |
| Mon, Oct 12, 2026 | HolidayNo school |
| Tue, Nov 3, 2026 | Remote Learning/ElectionsRemote |
| Nov 23–27, 2026 | Thanksgiving BreakNo school |
| Fri, Dec 18, 2026 | Last Day of First Semester |
| Dec 21–31, 2026 | December BreakNo school |
| Fri, Jan 1, 2027 | New Year's DayNo school |
| Mon, Jan 4, 2027 | Professional Development/Teacher Workday (students off)No school |
| Tue, Jan 5, 2027 | First Day of Semester |
| Mon, Jan 18, 2027 | MLK Jr. HolidayNo school |
| Feb 15–17, 2027 | Winter BreakNo school |
| Feb 18–19, 2027 | Professional Development/Teacher Workday (students off)No school |
| Mon, Mar 15, 2027 | HolidayNo school |
| Apr 5–9, 2027 | Spring BreakNo school |
| Thu, May 27, 2027 | Last Day of SchoolFirst / last day |
| Fri, May 28, 2027 | Professional Development/Teacher Workday (students off)No school |
| Mon, May 31, 2027 | Memorial DayNo school |
| Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | Juneteenth Holiday (offices closed) |
The approved calendar lists Fall Break as September 21–23 and Winter Break as February 15–17, each followed by "Professional Development/Teacher Workday" on the Thursday and Friday (September 24–25 and February 18–19). The legend defines that category as "Professional Development and/or Teacher Workday (students off)", so students are out Monday, September 21 through Friday, September 25 and Monday, February 15 through Friday, February 19. The same pattern closes out December: December Break is December 21–31, January 1 is New Year's Day, January 4 is a teacher workday and students return Tuesday, January 5, the "First Day of Semester".
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 is labelled "Remote Learning/Elections" and shaded as a "Remote Learning Day" in the legend. The calendar's footnote generalises it: "All statewide election days will be remote for students unless otherwise indicated above." The calendar does not describe what a remote learning day looks like at a given school.
Monday, October 12, 2026 and Monday, March 15, 2027 are each listed only as "Holiday", shaded in the legend's "Holiday and/or Break (schools closed for staff and students)" colour. The calendar does not name them further. Labor Day (September 7), "MLK Jr. Holiday" (January 18) and Memorial Day (May 31) are named.
The calendar states: "The approved 2026-2027 School Calendar includes a total of 179 instructional days for students: 88 days for First Semester and 91 days for Second Semester." First semester runs August 3 to December 18 ("Last Day of First Semester"); second semester runs January 5 to May 27. Each month grid carries its own "Instructional Days" and "Staff Days" line — for example 21 instructional days in August, 16 in September and 14 in December.
The district also publishes an accessible text version of this calendar. It has the same dates but calls December 21–31 "Winter Break", February 15–17 "Fall Break" and January 1 "Winter Break", where the approved grid says "December Break", "Winter Break" and "New Year's Day" — so a parent opening the text version sees "Winter Break" in December while this page follows the grid; it also adds "June 19: Juneteenth Holiday (offices closed)" and notes Memorial Day as "offices closed". Neither document gives dismissal times, names inclement-weather make-up days, or carries a "subject to change" statement. The approved calendar's one instruction is "Staff should refer to their employee work calendar for their reporting schedule."
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 Fulton 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:
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.
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 3, 2026, after a week of teacher workdays July 27–31. The last day of school is Thursday, May 27, 2027; Friday, May 28 is a Professional Development/Teacher Workday with students off.
Spring Break is Monday, April 5 through Friday, April 9, 2027. There are no teacher workdays attached to it, so students return Monday, April 12.
Fall Break is September 21–23, 2026 (Monday–Wednesday), followed by teacher workdays September 24–25 with students off, so students are out the whole week. Winter Break is February 15–17, 2027 (Monday–Wednesday), followed by teacher workdays February 18–19, so students are out that whole week too. The December holiday is listed separately as "December Break", December 21–31, 2026.
Thanksgiving Break is Monday–Friday, November 23–27, 2026. December Break runs Monday, December 21 through Thursday, December 31, 2026; Friday, January 1 is New Year's Day and Monday, January 4 is a teacher workday with students off, so the first day of second semester is Tuesday, January 5, 2027.
Not a day off — Tuesday, November 3, 2026 is "Remote Learning/Elections", a remote learning day for students. The calendar adds that "All statewide election days will be remote for students unless otherwise indicated above."
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