2023 - 2024 Student Calendar
For a printable version, please see the FCPS calendar website.
2023-24 School Year Calendar Dates
| July 3-4, 2023 | Holidays | Independence Day Break |
| August 7-10 | New Teacher Training |
| August 14-18 | Professional Work Days for Staff | 14 - School Planning Day | 15 - Teacher Work Day | 16 - Staff Development Day | 17 - Teacher Work Day | 18 - School Planning Day |
| August 21 | First Day of School |
| September 1-4 | Holidays | Labor Day Break |
| September 16 | Religious and Cultural Observance | Rosh Hashanah (begins sundown 9/15 - sundown 9/17) |
| September 25 | Holiday | Yom Kippur |
| October 9 | Student Holiday | Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Staff Development Day for Staff) |
| November 1-2 | Religious and Cultural Observance | All Saints Day / Día de los Muertos |
| November 3 | End of First Quarter - 2-hour Early Release |
| November 6 | Student Holiday (School Planning Day for Staff) |
| November 7 | Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day for Staff) | Election Day |
| November 11 | Veterans Day |
| November 12 | Diwali |
| November 22-24 | Holidays | Thanksgiving Break |
| December 7 | Religious and Cultural Observance | Chanukah (begins sundown 12/7-sundown 12/15) |
| December 8 | Religious and Cultural Observance | Bodhi Day |
| December 18-31 | Holidays | Winter Break |
| December 25 | Christmas |
| January 1, 2024 | Holiday | New Year's Day |
| January 6 | Three Kings Day/Epiphany |
| January 7 | Orthodox Christmas |
| January 15 | Holiday | Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday |
| January 19 | Religious and Cultural Observance | Orthodox Epiphany |
| January 25 | End of Second Quarter - 2-hour Early Release |
| January 26 | Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day for Staff) |
| February 10 | Lunar New Year |
| February 14 | Ash Wednesday |
| February 19 | Holiday | Washington’s Birthday and Presidents’ Day |
| March 5 | Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day for Staff) |
| March 11 | Religious and Cultural Observance | First Full Day of Ramadan (begins sundown 3/10 and continues with daily fast and nightly prayer until 4/9) |
| March 20 | Orthodox Ash Wednesday |
| March 22 | End of Third Quarter, Early Release |
| March 25-29 | Holidays | Spring Break |
| March 29 | Good Friday |
| March 31 | Easter |
| April 1 | Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day for Staff) |
| April 2 | Student Holiday (Staff Development Day for Staff) |
| April 9 | Religious and Cultural Observance | Eid al Fitr (begins sundown 4/9 – sundown 4/10) |
| April 10 | Holiday | Eid al Fitr (begins sundown 4/9 – sundown 4/10) |
| April 22 | Religious and Cultural Observance | First evening of Passover (begins sundown 4/22 - sundown 4/30) |
| April 23 | Religious and Cultural Observance | Second evening of Passover |
| April 24 | Religious and Cultural Observance | Theravada New Year |
| May 3 | Student Holiday (Teacher Work Day for Staff) |
| May 5 | Orthodox Easter |
| May 27 | Holiday | Memorial Day |
| June 12 | Last Day of School / Early Release (time of early release determined by each school) |
| June 13 | School Planning Day for Staff |
| June 14 | Teacher Work Day for Staff |
| June 17 | Holiday | Eid-al-Adha (begins sundown 6/16 - sundown 6/17) |
| June 18 | Teacher Day for Staff (Option to work at an alternate location) |
| June 19 | Holiday | Juneteenth |