School Calendar

The Garden City Public Schools Board of Education has approved an updated 2025-2026 school calendar at their February 17th meeting.  A morning session of school will be held for elementary, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth grades and students new to the district on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.  The first day of school for all students is Thursday, August 14, 2025.

The calendar was approved due to the alignment of Spring Break with the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) and the Kansas Board of Regents recommendations. Spring Break will now take place during the week of March 16th instead of the week of March 9th, which would line up with colleges, universities, and school districts throughout the state.  As a result of that change, the in-service day originally scheduled for March 20th has been moved to March 13th and will be a Teacher Release in-service day.

Some key dates on the calendar include:

  • August 6th – 8th – Orientation for new teachers

  • August 11th – Inservice for all teachers

  • August 12th – Workday for all teachers

  • August 13th – Morning class only for elementary, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth grades and students new to the district, teacher workday in the afternoon

  • August 14th – First full day of school for all students

  • September 1st – Labor Day observed no school

  • September 25th and 26th – Teacher inservice

  • October 17th – Teacher inservice in the morning and teacher workday in the afternoon

  • October 23rd and 24th – Parent Teacher Conferences

  • November 24th – 28th  – Fall vacation

  • December 22nd – January 2nd – Winter vacation: school is not in session

  • January 5th – New teacher workday

  • January 6th – Teacher inservice

  • January 7th – School resumes

  • January 30th – New teacher inservice

  • February 20th – Teacher inservice in the morning and teacher workday in the afternoon

  • February 26th and 27th – Parent Teacher Conferences

  • March 13th – Teacher release inservice

  • March 16th – 20th – Spring Break

  • April 3rd – New teacher inservice

  • April 6th – Teacher inservice

  • May 16th – Graduation weekend

  • May 21st – Last day of school

  • May 22nd – Teacher workday in the morning

     

The new 2025-2026 school calendar is available here.