{"id":343585,"date":"2026-07-17T16:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:29:07","slug":"2026-big-bend-and-south-georgia-back-to-school-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343585\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Big Bend and South Georgia Back-to-School dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new school year is quickly approaching. Here&#8217;s a list of when students will return to the classroom across the Big Bend and South Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>    Big Bend:<\/p>\n<p>Wakulla County: August 10thHamilton County: August 10thSuwannee County: August 10thLafayette County: August 10th Gadsden County: August 11thMadison County: August 11thTaylor County: August 11th Leon County: August 12thJefferson County: August 12th<br \/>\n    South Georgia:<\/p>\n<p>Grady County: July 31stValdosta City Schools: August 3rdDecatur County: August 3rdMiller County: August 3rdClinch County: August 3rdLanier County: August 3rdThomasville City Schools: August 3rdBerrien County Schools: August 5th Lowndes County School: August 5thSeminole County: August 6th Echols County: August 7th Thomas County Schools: August 10thBrooks County: August 19th<br \/>\n    Colleges:<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee State College: August 17thThomas University: August 17thValdosta State University: August 17thFlorida A&amp;M University: August 24thFlorida State University: August 24th <\/p>\n<p>For back-to-school giveaways\/drives, click <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/news\/local-news\/2026-back-to-school-season-big-bend-and-south-georgia-events-giveaways-and-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new school year is quickly approaching. Here&#8217;s a list of when students will return to the classroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[42386,242,54547,509,511,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-343585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-42386","tag-abc-27","tag-back-to-school","tag-big-bend","tag-south-georgia","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}