Wake County runs more than one school calendar, so the first thing to check is which one your school follows. This page is the traditional calendar: Monday, August 24, 2026 to Thursday, June 9, 2027, with a week-plus winter break, a week of spring break at the end of March and eight single teacher workdays scattered through the year — the Mondays, Tuesdays and one Wednesday that quietly become days off for kids and scramble for parents. If your school is year-round or modified, your dates are different and live on the district's calendars page.
Below is every line of the WCPSS traditional calendar as the district published it — holidays, workdays, breaks, nine-week ends and report-card days — with the district's own wording, then how to get it onto your phone next to the practices and games.
Source: WCPSS 2026-2027 Traditional Calendar (PDF) and wcpss.net/calendars. Last checked November 6, 2026. This is the TRADITIONAL calendar only (the district's PDF, filename "updated 5-6-26", and its accessible text version agree on every date here); Wake's year-round, modified, Track 4 and early-college schools follow separate calendars published on the same district page.
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.
26 published entries, 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Aug 17–21, 2026 | Teacher Workday (Monday, August 17 through Friday, August 21) |
| Mon, Aug 24, 2026 | First Day of SchoolFirst / last day |
| Mon, Sep 7, 2026 | HolidayNo school |
| Mon, Sep 21, 2026 | Teacher WorkdayNo school |
| Mon, Oct 12, 2026 | Teacher Workday (first of three dated weather make-up days)No school |
| Tue, Oct 27, 2026 | End of Nine Weeks |
| Tue, Nov 3, 2026 | Teacher WorkdayNo school |
| Fri, Nov 6, 2026 | Report Card |
| Wed, Nov 11, 2026 | HolidayNo school |
| Nov 25–27, 2026 | Thanksgiving Break (Wednesday, November 25 through Friday, November 27)No school |
| Dec 21, 2026 – Jan 1, 2027 | Winter Break (Monday, December 21 through Friday, January 1)No school |
| Fri, Jan 15, 2027 | End of Nine Weeks |
| Mon, Jan 18, 2027 | HolidayNo school |
| Tue, Jan 19, 2027 | Teacher WorkdayNo school |
| Fri, Jan 22, 2027 | Report Card |
| Mon, Feb 15, 2027 | Teacher Workday (second of three dated weather make-up days)No school |
| Wed, Mar 10, 2027 | Teacher WorkdayNo school |
| Thu, Mar 25, 2027 | End of Nine Weeks |
| Fri, Mar 26, 2027 | HolidayNo school |
| Mar 29 – Apr 2, 2027 | Spring Break (Monday, March 29 through Friday, April 2)No school |
| Mon, Apr 5, 2027 | Teacher Workday (third of three dated weather make-up days)No school |
| Fri, Apr 9, 2027 | Report Card |
| Mon, May 17, 2027 | Teacher WorkdayNo school |
| Mon, May 31, 2027 | HolidayNo school |
| Wed, Jun 9, 2027 | End of Nine Weeks and last day of classes (Report Card)First / last day |
| Jun 10–11, 2027 | Teacher Workdays (Thursday, June 10 and Friday, June 11) |
WCPSS publishes separate 2026-27 calendars for traditional, year-round (multi-track), modified and single-track (Track 4) schools, plus its own calendars for the leadership academies, early colleges and a handful of named high schools. Every date on this page is from the traditional calendar. Your school's own website carries the calendar it follows under "Calendar and Schedules", and the district page at wcpss.net/calendars links all of them.
The traditional calendar has teacher workdays on September 21, October 12, November 3, January 19, February 15, March 10, April 5 and May 17, on top of the August 17–21 week before school starts and June 10–11 after it ends. The calendar's own make-up language treats scheduled workdays as days that can be turned into instruction, which is the district's way of saying students are not in class on them as published.
The PDF lists the days available for weather make-up "in order of utilization": first 6 banked days and 5 remote instruction days ("District Leadership will determine the order"), then October 12, then February 15, then April 5. In other words, after a run of snow or storm closures, those three Mondays can stop being days off. The calendar adds that under the NC Calendar Law the superintendent "will update this calendar" using workdays, Saturdays, banked hours or scheduled vacation days, that Saturdays if used "will be full instructional days", and that "if all other options are exhausted, holidays may be used for weather make up".
September 7, November 11, January 18, March 26 and May 31 appear on the calendar as "Holiday" with no name attached, so that is how they are listed here. Thanksgiving Break is Wednesday–Friday, November 25–27 (the grid marks the Wednesday as a vacation day and Thursday–Friday as holidays). Winter Break runs Monday, December 21 through Friday, January 1; on the grid, December 21–22 are teacher workdays and the remaining weekdays are a mix of holidays and vacation days — either way, no school for students.
Grading periods end October 27, January 15, March 25 and June 9, with report cards on November 6, January 22, April 9 and the last day of classes, June 9. The calendar does not list any early-release days for traditional schools; dismissal changes, if any, come from your school rather than the district calendar.
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 Wake 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.
On the traditional calendar, the first day of school is Monday, August 24, 2026 and the last day of classes is Wednesday, June 9, 2027 (also the end of the fourth nine weeks and a report-card day). The district's text version of the calendar misprints that date as a Thursday; the calendar grid places it on Wednesday, June 9. Teachers work Thursday, June 10 and Friday, June 11 after students finish. Year-round and modified schools have their own first and last days.
No. This is the WCPSS traditional calendar only. The district publishes separate 2026-27 calendars for year-round, modified, Track 4 (single-track year-round), leadership academy and early-college schools, all linked from wcpss.net/calendars. Check your school's own "Calendar and Schedules" page to see which one it follows.
Thanksgiving Break is Wednesday–Friday, November 25–27, 2026. Winter Break is Monday, December 21, 2026 through Friday, January 1, 2027. Spring Break is Monday, March 29 through Friday, April 2, 2027, with a teacher workday on Monday, April 5 right after it.
Yes, three of them in a set order. The calendar says weather make-up uses 6 banked days and 5 remote instruction days first (district leadership decides the order), then October 12, 2026, then February 15, 2027, then April 5, 2027. It also allows Saturdays, banked hours and scheduled vacation days, and, if everything else is exhausted, holidays. Confirm with the district after a closure before booking anything on those dates.
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