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Academic calendar

Academic calendar

Key dates for the 2026–27 school year and the hours of a Knox school day. The full calendar is a one-page PDF you can download and print.

Key dates for the 2026–27 school year and the hours of a Knox school day. The full calendar is a one-page PDF you can download and print.

School hours

Wednesdays finish earlier. Early dismissal days are marked in the key dates below.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

8:30 AM – 3:15 PM

Wednesday

8:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Extracurricular classes (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri)

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Questions about a date? The front office can help.

Students arriving at The Knox School in the morning
Students arriving at The Knox School in the morning

Key dates for 2026–27

Dates can occasionally change. The PDF has the full month-by-month view.

August 2026

10–18

No school, teacher PD days

17

New family preconferences

17

Open House, 3:30 PM

17

Back-to-School Picnic, 5:00 PM

19

First day of school

19

Back-to-School Parent Coffee, 8:45 AM

September 2026

7

No school, Labor Day

22

Back-to-School Night

23

School portrait day

October 2026

5–8

MAP testing, all school

9

No school, teacher self-care day

24

Knox Fall Event

30

Halloween celebration

November 2026

11

No school, Veterans Day

19

T1 culmination

20

Thanksgiving Feast, 1:00 PM dismissal

23–27

Thanksgiving break

December 2026

4

No school, parent-teacher conferences

18

Early dismissal, 11:30 AM

21–31

No school, winter break

January 2027

1–5

No school, winter break

6

School resumes

18

No school, Martin Luther King Jr. Day

February 2027

12

No school, Abraham Lincoln Day

15

No school, Presidents’ Day

25

T2 culmination

March 2027

2

Read Across America, 11:30 AM dismissal

5

No school, parent-teacher conferences

22–31

No school, spring break

April 2027

1–2

No school, spring break

May 2027

3–6

MAP testing, all school

3–7

Teacher Appreciation Week

7

No school, teacher self-care day

31

No school, Memorial Day

June 2027

8

T3 culmination

10

Graduation, 10:30 AM dismissal

11–30

No school, summer break

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