New York City's public school year is the long one: Thursday, September 10, 2026 to Monday, June 28, 2027, and the days that catch parents out are rarely the recesses. They are the Tuesday that is school-from-home, the conference afternoons when one kid is dismissed three hours early and the other is not, and the June days when some grades are in and others are out.
Below is the full NYCPS table, every row, with the district's wording and its school-type distinctions kept intact — then how to get it onto your phone next to the team schedules.
Source: NYCPS School Year Calendar 2026–2027 (PDF) and schools.nyc.gov/calendar. Last checked October 28, 2026. The calendar covers NYCPS schools from 3-K through grade 12; charter, private and parochial schools set their own.
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.
35 published entries, 13 of them closures or breaks and 6 flagged early release. A single entry can cover a span of days. Labels are the district's wording.
| Date | What the district calls it |
|---|---|
| Thu, Sep 10, 2026 | First day of schoolFirst / last day |
| Mon, Sep 21, 2026 | Yom Kippur, schools closedNo school |
| Wed, Sep 23, 2026 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for middle schools and D75 schools |
| Thu, Sep 24, 2026 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools |
| Wed, Sep 30, 2026 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K Centers |
| Mon, Oct 12, 2026 | Italian Heritage/Indigenous Peoples' Day, schools closedNo school |
| Tue, Nov 3, 2026 | Election Day, school will be in session remotely for all studentsRemote |
| Thu, Nov 5, 2026 | Afternoon and Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K Centers; students in these schools dismissed three hours earlyEarly release |
| Wed, Nov 11, 2026 | Veterans Day, schools closedNo school |
| Thu, Nov 12, 2026 | Afternoon and Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for middle schools and D75; students in these schools dismissed three hours earlyEarly release |
| Thu, Nov 19, 2026 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools |
| Fri, Nov 20, 2026 | Afternoon Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools; students in these schools dismissed three hours earlyEarly release |
| Nov 26–27, 2026 | Thanksgiving Recess, schools closedNo school |
| Dec 24, 2026 – Jan 1, 2027 | Winter Recess, schools closedNo school |
| Mon, Jan 18, 2027 | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, schools closedNo school |
| Jan 26–29, 2027 | Regents Administration |
| Mon, Feb 1, 2027 | Professional Development Day; students that attend high schools and schools that serve only grades 6-12 are not in attendance. All other students attend school. |
| Tue, Feb 2, 2027 | Spring Semester begins |
| Feb 15–19, 2027 | Midwinter Recess, schools closedNo school |
| Wed, Mar 3, 2027 | Afternoon and Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K Centers; students in these schools dismissed three hours earlyEarly release |
| Thu, Mar 4, 2027 | Afternoon and Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for middle schools and D75 schools; students in these schools dismissed three hours earlyEarly release |
| Tue, Mar 9, 2027 | Eid al-Fitr, schools closedNo school |
| Thu, Mar 18, 2027 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools |
| Fri, Mar 19, 2027 | Afternoon Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools; students in these schools are dismissed three hours earlyEarly release |
| Fri, Mar 26, 2027 | Good Friday, schools closedNo school |
| Apr 22–30, 2027 | Spring Recess, schools closedNo school |
| Wed, May 12, 2027 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools |
| Thu, May 13, 2027 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for middle schools and D75 schools |
| Mon, May 17, 2027 | Eid al-Adha, schools closedNo school |
| Wed, May 26, 2027 | Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K Centers |
| Mon, May 31, 2027 | Memorial Day, schools closedNo school |
| Tue, Jun 8, 2027 | Clerical Day; no classes for students attending 3-K, Pre-K, elementary schools, middle schools, K–12 schools, and standalone D75 programs |
| Thu, Jun 10, 2027 | Anniversary Day/Chancellor's Conference Day for staff development; students do not attend schoolNo school |
| Jun 15–18 and Jun 21–25, 2027 | Regents Administration |
| Mon, Jun 28, 2027 | Last day of school for studentsFirst / last day |
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 is listed as "school will be in session remotely for all students". It is not a day off, and the calendar adds that on days when buildings close for weather or other emergencies, NYCPS "may be in session remotely" as well — so a snow day is not automatically a free day either.
Evening conferences change nothing about dismissal. Afternoon-and-evening (or afternoon-only) conferences mean "students in these schools dismissed three hours early", and each date names its school types: elementary and Pre-K Centers on November 5 and March 3; middle schools and D75 on November 12 and March 4; high schools, K–12 and 6–12 schools on November 20 and March 19. The PDF also warns that individual schools' conference dates "might be different from the dates below" — your child's teacher sets the actual slot.
NYCPS defines elementary schools as programs serving K through grade 8 (including those with 3-K and Pre-K, and those ending in grade 5 or 6), middle schools as grades 6–8, high schools as grades 9–12, and "6-12 schools" as programs serving only grades 6–12 in one school. A K–8 school follows the elementary conference dates, not the middle-school ones.
June 8 is a Clerical Day with no classes for 3-K, Pre-K, elementary, middle, K–12 and standalone D75 students — high schools are not on that list. June 10 is Anniversary Day/Chancellor's Conference Day and no students attend. February 1 works the other way round: a Professional Development Day on which high school and 6-12 students stay home while everyone else attends.
Beyond the federal holidays, schools are closed for Yom Kippur (September 21), Eid al-Fitr (March 9), Good Friday (March 26) and Eid al-Adha (May 17), and the Winter Recess starts on Christmas Eve, December 24, running through January 1.
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 October 28, 2026, yours to edit. If NYC 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, September 10, 2026 and the last day of school for students is Monday, June 28, 2027. The spring semester begins Tuesday, February 2, 2027.
No. On Tuesday, November 3, 2026 "school will be in session remotely for all students", per the NYCPS calendar. Plan on a school day at home rather than a free day.
Thanksgiving Recess is Thursday–Friday, November 26–27, 2026. Winter Recess runs Thursday, December 24, 2026 through Friday, January 1, 2027. Midwinter Recess is Monday–Friday, February 15–19, 2027. Spring Recess is Thursday, April 22 through Friday, April 30, 2027.
Only the afternoon ones, and only for the school types named on that date. On November 5, November 12, November 20, March 3, March 4 and March 19 the calendar says students in the named schools are "dismissed three hours early"; the evening-only conference dates (September 23, 24 and 30, November 19, March 18, May 12, 13 and 26) have no early dismissal. Your school may schedule its conferences on different dates.
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