2020–2021 DISTRICT CALENDAR

2020 2021 Major Religious & Cultural Holidays

 August 4-5.......................New Leader Development  January 4.................... All teachers and paras report 2021
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 August 17-19......... BPS Learns Summer Conference January 5...................... Students return from recess Jan. 1....... New Year’s Day
July 31........... Eid al-Adha
(TSI, ALI, English Learner Symposium,  January 18..................M.L. King Jr. Day: No school Jan. 6..... Three Kings Day
Sep. 19-20...Rosh Hashanah
Early Childhood/UPK Conference,  February 15..................... Presidents Day: No school Feb. 12....Lunar New Year
New Teacher Induction) Sep. 28.......... Yom Kippur
 February 16-19............. February Recess: No school Feb. 17...Ash Wednesday
 August TBD..... UP Academies: Boston, Dorchester, Nov. 14....... Diwali begins
February 22................... Students return from recess Mar. 27-Apr. 3.....Passover
and Holland, all grades − first day of school Nov. 26........Thanksgiving
 April 2....................................................... No school Apr. 2............Good Friday
 September 7........................... Labor Day: No school Dec. 10-18........Hanukkah
 April 19...............................Patriots’ Day: No school Apr. 4......................Easter
 September 8-9............ All teachers and paras report Dec. 25.............Christmas
 April 20-23........................Spring Recess: No school April 12....Ramadan begins
 September 10......... Students in grades 1-12 report, Dec. 26 - Jan. 1...Kwanzaa
April 26......................... Students return from recess Apr. 22.............. Earth Day
including grade 1 in ELCs and EECs
 May 31..............................Memorial Day: No school May 2..... Orthodox Easter
 September 14........... Pre-K & Kindergarten students
 June 9 (or day 170).....................Last day for seniors May 9...........Mother’s Day
report, including EECs, ELCs, and special ed.
 June 22 (or day 179)......... Early release for students May 13.............. Eid al-Fitr
 October 12............................................... No school
 June 23 (or day 180)............. Last day of school if no June 20......... Father’s Day
 November 11..................... Veterans Day: No school
days are lost due to cancellations, early release for July 5*.. Independence Day
 November 25...... Early release for students and staff students. (observed)
 November 26-27.....Thanksgiving Recess: No school  June 30 is the 185th day required for calendar
 December 24- January 1...Winter Recess: No school purposes. w All BPS offices and Welcome Centers closed.

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Extenuating circumstances and/or inclement weather may necessitate changes to the calendar during the year.
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Produced by the Boston Public Schools Communications Office | January 2020