Miami-Dade's 2026-27 year runs Thursday, August 13, 2026 to Thursday, June 3, 2027, with the whole of Thanksgiving week off, two weeks at winter recess and one at spring recess. The days that catch parents out are the teacher planning days: ten of them with no students in school, six of them scattered through the middle of the year on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays and Fridays, plus the Wednesday early release that elementary and K-8 families live with every single week.
Below is the district's dated list, every line, with M-DCPS's own wording kept intact — then how to get it onto your phone next to the team schedules.
Source: M-DCPS 2026-2027 School Calendar, Elementary and Secondary (PDF) and the district's School Board approval announcement. Last checked November 6, 2026. The calendar covers M-DCPS elementary and secondary schools; the district publishes separate calendars for technical colleges/adult education centers and juvenile justice schools.
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.
28 published entries, 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Mon, Aug 10, 2026 | Teacher planning day; not available to opt; no students in schoolNo school |
| Tue, Aug 11, 2026 | Teacher planning day; District-wide Professional Learning Day - not available to opt; no students in schoolNo school |
| Wed, Aug 12, 2026 | Teacher planning day; not available to opt; no students in schoolNo school |
| Thu, Aug 13, 2026 | First day of school; begin first semesterFirst / last day |
| Mon, Sep 7, 2026 | Labor Day; holiday for students and employeesNo school |
| Mon, Sep 21, 2026 | Teacher planning day; no students in school, available to optNo school |
| Fri, Oct 16, 2026 | End of first grading period; first semester |
| Mon, Oct 19, 2026 | Beginning of second grading period; first semester |
| Tue, Nov 3, 2026 | Teacher planning day; District-wide Professional Learning Day - not available to opt; no students in schoolNo school |
| Wed, Nov 11, 2026 | Veterans' Day; holiday for students and employeesNo school |
| Nov 23–25, 2026 | Recess Days (10-month and 11.5-month employees only)No school |
| Thu, Nov 26, 2026 | Thanksgiving; Board-approved holiday for students and employeesNo school |
| Fri, Nov 27, 2026 | Recess Day for students and employeesNo school |
| Fri, Dec 18, 2026 | Teacher planning day; no students in school, available to optNo school |
| Dec 21, 2026 – Jan 1, 2027 | Winter recess for students and employees with the exception of Fraternal Order of Police and select 12-month employeesNo school |
| Thu, Jan 14, 2027 | End of second grading period; first semester |
| Fri, Jan 15, 2027 | Teacher planning day; no students in school, available to optNo school |
| Mon, Jan 18, 2027 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday; holiday for students and employeesNo school |
| Tue, Jan 19, 2027 | Beginning of third grading period; second semester |
| Mon, Feb 15, 2027 | All Presidents Day; holiday for students and employeesNo school |
| Wed, Mar 10, 2027 | Teacher planning day; no students in school, available to optNo school |
| Fri, Mar 19, 2027 | End of third grading period; second semester |
| Mar 22–26, 2027 | Spring recess for students and employees with the exception of Fraternal Order of Police and select 12-month employeesNo school |
| Mon, Mar 29, 2027 | Teacher planning day; no students in school, available to optNo school |
| Tue, Mar 30, 2027 | Beginning of fourth grading period; second semester |
| Mon, May 31, 2027 | Memorial Day; holiday for students and employeesNo school |
| Thu, Jun 3, 2027 | Last day of school; end fourth grading period; second semesterFirst / last day |
| Fri, Jun 4, 2027 | Teacher planning day; not available to opt; no students in schoolNo school |
The calendar's one standing note: "Every Wednesday students in elementary schools (Grades 2-5) and K-8 Centers (Grades 2-8) are released one (1) hour early". It is not a dated entry, so it does not appear in the table above, but it is the single most frequent thing on this calendar — roughly 36 Wednesdays across the year. Middle and high schools are not named in the note.
Students are out on August 10, 11 and 12, September 21, November 3, December 18, January 15, March 10, March 29 and June 4. The "available to opt" wording on five of them (September 21, December 18, January 15, March 10 and March 29) is about staff: the PDF's footnotes say teachers and support staff may work August 6–7, 2026 or June 7–8, 2027 instead of those days. It changes nothing for students — every one of the ten is "no students in school". August 11 and November 3 are District-wide Professional Learning Days and are not available to opt.
The PDF labels November 23–25 "Recess Days (10-month and 11.5-month employees only)", November 26 "Thanksgiving; Board-approved holiday for students and employees" and November 27 "Recess Day for students and employees". The district's approval announcement calls November 23–25 a "Fall Recess for students and 10-month employees", and the calendar's own count works out that way: the second grading period (October 19 to January 14) totals 46 days only with those three days out. Winter recess is December 21 through January 1 and spring recess March 22–26, each "for students and employees with the exception of Fraternal Order of Police and select 12-month employees".
The legend sets the grading periods at 45, 46, 42 and 47 days: August 13 to October 16, October 19 to January 14, January 19 to March 19 and March 30 to June 3. The second semester begins with the third grading period on Tuesday, January 19, the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and the first school day after the January 15 planning day and the weekend.
The M-DCPS calendar carries no "subject to change" line and names no hurricane make-up days; it simply lists the dates and the employee work years. Hurricane closures do happen in Miami-Dade, so if schools close for a storm, check the district's Calendars page for a revised document rather than assuming any of the dates above absorbed the lost days.
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 Miami-Dade 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 school is Thursday, August 13, 2026 ("begin first semester") and the last day of school is Thursday, June 3, 2027 ("end fourth grading period; second semester"). Teachers have planning days August 10–12 before students arrive and on June 4 after they leave.
Spring recess is Monday, March 22 through Friday, March 26, 2027. It is followed by a teacher planning day on Monday, March 29 with no students in school, so students return Tuesday, March 30, which is also the first day of the fourth grading period.
Thanksgiving: Monday–Wednesday, November 23–25 are recess days, Thursday, November 26 is the Thanksgiving holiday and Friday, November 27 is a recess day for students and employees, so students are out the whole week. Winter recess runs Monday, December 21, 2026 through Friday, January 1, 2027; classes resume Monday, January 4.
Yes, for the grades the calendar names. Its note reads: "Every Wednesday students in elementary schools (Grades 2-5) and K-8 Centers (Grades 2-8) are released one (1) hour early". The calendar does not state a dismissal time, which depends on your school's bell schedule.
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