The Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District 2025-26 school calendar is now available. It was approved by the Board of Education on Monday, March 3.
The calendar sets school holidays, vacation weeks and days off for students due to staff development days. Once school and district events and activities are scheduled for the new school year, that information will be added to the district’s website calendar, which is the most up-to-date resource for families and community members.
Religious and ethnic observances
The Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District serves children from many different religious and ethnic backgrounds. Because no Jamesville-DeWitt student should ever have to choose between important religious observances and academic or athletic commitments, the district provides for students who wish to participate in any religious observances that conflict with other obligations to make arrangements with their teachers and coaches to do so and shall be provided an opportunity to make up such requirements that may have been missed.
2025-26 school calendar
Aug. 27 and Aug. 28: No school (Superintendent Conference Days)
Sept. 1: No school (Labor Day)
Sept. 2: First day of school
Sept. 23: No school (Navaratri)(Rosh Hashanah)
Oct. 2: No school (Yom Kippur)
Oct. 10: Half-day
Oct. 13: No school (Columbus Day)
Nov. 4: No school (Superintendent Conference Day)
Nov. 7 and 10: Grades preK-6 ONLY Half-day classes (morning)/parent conferences (afternoon)
Nov. 11: No school (Veterans Day)
Nov. 26-28: No school (Thanksgiving Recess)
Dec. 22 to Jan. 2: No school (Winter/New Year’s Recess)
Jan. 19: No school (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
Jan. 20-23: Regents exams (tentative)
Jan. 23: Half-day
Jan. 26: Second semester begins
Feb. 16-20: No school (Presidents Day/Lunar New Year/Mid-Winter Recess)
March 20: No school (Superintendent Conference Day/Eid al-Fitr)
March 30-April 3: No school (Spring Recess/Good Friday)
May 25: No school (Memorial Day)
May 27: No school (Eid al-Adha)
June 17-26: Regents exams (except June 19)
June 19: No school (Juneteenth)
June 26: Half-day, last day of classes
School may not be in session on May 22 and/or May 26 based on the number of emergency closing days used.
The following religious and ethnic observance dates are included for reference but may not indicate a school recess.
Sept. 22: Navaratri begins
Sept. 23: Rosh Hashanah
Oct. 2: Yom Kippur
Oct. 6: Sukkot begins
Oct. 13: Columbus Day
Oct. 20: Diwali
Nov. 11: Veterans Day
Dec. 14: Hanukkah begins
Dec. 25: Christmas Day, Kwanzaa begins
Jan. 1: New Year’s Day
Jan. 19: Martin Luther King Day
Feb. 16: President’s Day
Feb. 17: Lunar New Year, Ramadan begins
March 2: Purim begins
March 4: Holi
March 20: Eid al-Fitr
April 1: Passover begins
April 3: Good Friday
April 5: Easter
April 10: Orthodox Good Friday
April 12: Orthodox Easter
April 13: Yom Hashoah begins
May 1: Vesak Day
May 21: Shavuot begins
May 25: Memorial Day
May 27: Eid al-Adha
June 19: Juneteenth