| Date |
Event |
| July 4-5, 2024 |
Holidays | Independence Day Break |
| August 5-8 |
New Teacher Training |
| August 12-16 |
Professional Work Days for Staff | 12 – School Planning Day | 13 – Teacher Work Day | 14 – Staff Development Day | 15 – Teacher Work Day | 16 – School Planning Day |
| 19-Aug |
First Day of School |
| August 30 – September 2 |
Holidays | Labor Day Break |
| 3-Oct |
Holiday | Rosh Hashanah (begins sundown 10/2 – sundown 10/4) |
| 4-Oct |
Student Holiday | Teacher Workday |
| 11-Oct |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Yom Kippur (begins sundown 10/11 – sundown 10/12) |
| 14-Oct |
Student Holiday | Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Staff Development Day) |
| 31-Oct |
End of First Quarter – 2-hour Early Release |
| 1-Nov |
Holiday | Diwali |
| November 1-2 |
Religious and Cultural Observance | All Saints Day / Día de los Muertos |
| 4-Nov |
Student Holiday (School Planning Day for Staff) |
| 5-Nov |
Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day for Staff) | Election Day |
| 11-Nov |
Holiday | Veterans Day |
| November 27-29 |
Holidays | Thanksgiving Break |
| 8-Dec |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Bodhi Day |
| December 23 – January 5 |
Holidays | Winter Break |
| 25-Dec |
Christmas |
| December 25 – January 2 |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Chanukah (begins sundown 12/25 – sundown January 2) |
| 1-Jan-25 |
Holiday | New Year’s Day |
| 6-Jan |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Three Kings Day/Epiphany |
| 7-Jan |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Orthodox Christmas |
| 19-Jan |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Orthodox Epiphany |
| 20-Jan |
Holiday | Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday |
| 20-Jan |
Holiday | Inauguration Day |
| 28-Jan |
End of Second Quarter |
| 29-Jan |
Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day) |
| 29-Jan |
Lunar New Year |
| 17-Feb |
Holiday | Washington’s Birthday and Presidents’ Day |
| 28-Feb |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Ramadan (begins sundown 2/28 and continues with daily fast and nightly prayer until 3/30) |
| 1-Mar |
First Full Day of Ramadan (begins sundown 2/28 and continues with daily fast and nightly prayer until 3/30) |
| 5-Mar |
Ash Wednesday |
| 5-Mar |
Orthodox Ash Wednesday |
| 20-Mar |
Nowruz |
| 28-Mar |
End of Third Quarter |
| 31-Mar |
Holiday | Eid al Fitr (begins sundown 3/30 – sundown 3/31) |
| 1-Apr |
Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day for Staff) |
| 12-Apr |
Religious and Cultural Observance | First evening of Passover (begins sundown 4/12 – sundown 4/20) |
| 13-Apr |
Theravada New Year |
| April 14-18 |
Holidays | Spring Break |
| 18-Apr |
Good Friday |
| 18-Apr |
Religious and Cultural Observance | Orthodox Good Friday |
| 20-Apr |
Easter |
| 20-Apr |
Orthodox Easter |
| 26-May |
Holiday | Memorial Day |
| 7-Jun |
Eid-al-Adha (begins sundown 6/6 – sundown 6/7) |
| 11-Jun |
Last Day of School / Early Release (time of early release determined by each school) |
| 12-Jun |
Staff Development Day |
| 13-Jun |
School Planning Day |
| June 16-17 |
Teacher Workdays |
| 19-Jun |
Holiday https://www.ncacbsa.org/george-mason/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2024/06/24-25-FCPS-Calendar.png| Juneteenth |
