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 | Presidential Primary (tentative) |
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 |
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 |