Here are school spring vacation dates for 2008

[Dave M Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dave M]

Complementing another thread on school vacations, here is an updated version – for 2008 - of a school spring vacation schedule that I have prepared at about this time of year each of the past six years. The schedule is useful in determining what weeks will likely be very busy at various resorts but should not be relied on for your own school district plans, since schedules often vary among school districts within a state.

Where multiple weeks are listed and separated by or, each such week is vacation in at least one school district. March 21 (listed frequently below) is Good Friday, the Friday before Easter. 3/24-28 will be a very busy vacation week!

The schedule lists 2008 spring vacation periods for every state and DC, except for West Virginia, for which I could not yet locate 2007-2008 approved calendars.

Please note that the dates are representative only, are for traditional tracks, not year-round school calendars, and do not include colleges or private schools. Many states have varying vacation dates in different school districts. Only sample dates for each state are reflected here.

AL – 3/17-21
AK – 3/10-14
AZ – 3/10-14
AR – 3/17-21
CA – 3/21-28 or 3/31-4/4
CO – 3/24-28
CT – 4/14-18
DE – 3/21-28
DC – 3/21-28
FL – 4/2-6 or 4/7-11
GA – 4/7-11
HI – 3/17-28 (two weeks per state law)
ID – 3/24-28
IL – 3/21-28
IN – 3/31-4/4
IA – 3/17-21
KS – 3/14-21
KY – 3/21-28
LA – 3/21-28
ME – 4/21-25
MD – 3/21-28
MA – 4/21-25
MI – 3/21-28
MN – 3/21-28
MS – 3/10-14
MO – 3/17-21
MT – 3/10-14
NE – 3/17-21
NV – 3/14-21 or 3/24-28
NH – 4/21-25
NJ – 3/21-3/28 or 3/31-4/4 or 4/21-25
NM – 3/21-28
NY – 3/19-24 and/or 4/14-18 or 4/21-25
NC – 3/31-4/4
ND – 3/6-7 (2 weekdays)
OH – 3/21-28
OK – 3/17-21
OR – 3/24-28
PA – 3/20-24 (3 weekdays)
RI – 4/21-25
SC – 3/21-28
SD – 3/21 & 24 (2 weekdays)
TN – 3/17-24
TX – 3/17-21
UT – 3/24-28
VT – 4/21-25
VA – 3/17-21 or 3/24-28
WA – 3/31-4/4
WV – not yet available
WI – 3/17-21 or 3/21-28
WY – 3/24-28

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Dave Thanks for posting this. Where did you find this and Do they have 09 yet? I just started planing my February trip.

[Dave M Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dave M]

I do a state-by-state Google search, trying to get calendars for at least a couple of school districts in each state.

There isn't much out yet for 2009 vacation dates. In all my searching, I probably saw 2008-09 school calendars for not more than five or six districts out of perhaps 200 district sites that I looked at. Most 2007-08 calendars have just been approved within the past six weeks.

[grest Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close grest]

That's a lot of work, Dave...thanks.
Connie

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

re Washington State.

Spring varies with location. Most of the state geographically will have the week indicated by Dave. Most of the Seattle/Tacoma area (meaning most of the state by population) will be a week or two later than Dave's indication. Central and north Puget Sound typically are off the entire Presidents Week, then have a second break mid-April. The rest of the state does not take off Presidents Week, and has the earlier spring break.

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

Thank you

Thanks! This was a very nice thing to do.

Sue

[Dave M Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dave M]

Steve -

As stated in my post, I don't try to list every district's dates. The purpose of the listing is to give people some planning help for when resorts will be busy, the best weeks to reserve for rental purposes, etc.

Still, I like the data to be reasonably representative and I specifically looked at Seattle schools to see if a 2007-2008 calendar has been approved. I couldn't find one. Can you assist?

(I am modifying the list a bit for some additional info I have found for all except West Virginia.)

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Wow! That's a lot of work! Thank you so much, Dave.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Dave thank you for taking the time to research all of this info.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Thanks for sharing this with us Dave!

As promised here are the approximate summer break dates for K-12 in return:

AL 22-May 8-Aug
AK 22-May 22-Aug
AZ 22-May 14-Aug
AR 1-Jun 22-Aug
CA 13-Jun 28-Aug
CO 29-May 17-Aug
CT 20-Jun 29-Aug
DE 5-Jun 22-Aug
DC 12-Jun 27-Aug
FL 4-Jun 20-Aug
GA 13-Jun 4-Sep
HI 5-Jun 30-Jul
ID 22-May 20-Aug
IL 6-Jun 29-Aug
IN 28-May 16-Aug
IA 29-May 27-Aug
KS 23-May 20-Aug
KY 23-May 13-Aug
LA 29-May 8-Aug
ME 11-Jun 4-Sep
MD 16-Jun 27-Aug
MA 18-Jun 4-Sep
MI 12-Jun 27-Aug
MN 6-Jun 4-Sep
MS 21-May 7-Aug
MO 23-May 15-Aug
MT 29-May 9-Aug
NE 21-May 17-Aug
NV 6-Jun 15-Aug
NH 13-Jun 4-Sep
NJ 24-Jun 5-Sep
NM 30-May 13-Aug
NY 27-Jun 6-Sep
NC 9-Jun 27-Aug
ND 22-May 23-Aug
OH 4-Jun 28-Aug
OK 28-May 20-Aug
OR 10-Jun 5-Sep
PA 4-Jun 27-Aug
RI ? 5-Sep
SC 4-Jun 20-Aug
SD ? ?
TN 22-May 14-Aug
TX 23-May 27-Aug
UT 5-Jun 28-Aug
VT 11-Jun 29-Aug
VA 12-Jun 4-Sep
WA 20-Jun 6-Sep
WV ? ?
WI 6-Jun 4-Sep
WY 6-Jun 29-Aug

I am still searching for reliable school calendars for WV, SD, RI

[xzhan02 Member Find all posts View Profile Close xzhan02]

GA summer

Thanks Lauren for the summer info.

Just want to say that all counties around metro Atlanta (Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinett, Cobb) start summer Memorial weekend or earlier, then reopen 2nd week of Aug. That certainly impacts Florida vacation crowd.

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

Thanks. That is very helpful.

I usually start from state.xx.us to get to each state's government site. So for WV it is WV.Gov. They have the menu "Learning in WV" that has calendar. But it is only 2006 - 2007. Don't know when they will update that.

Jya-Ning