{"id":389008,"date":"2026-07-28T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389008\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:46:49","slug":"hisd-calendar-dates-holidays-for-2026-27-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389008\/","title":{"rendered":"HISD calendar dates, holidays for 2026-27 school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston\u00a0ISD students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/education\/hisd\/article\/good-friday-holiday-22249795.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will return to class<\/a> on Aug. 10 for the first day of school of the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s largest school district will resume classes a few days earlier than most Houston-area districts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/education\/article\/school-districts-start-2026-21367282.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which largely begin<\/a> on Aug. 12.<\/p>\n<p>In HISD, classes will end for students on May 28 \u2014 a shift from the district\u2019s typical practice of ending the school year for students in June. Teachers, however, will end classes on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>HISD will have Thanksgiving break from Nov. 23 to Nov. 27, winter break from Dec. 21 to Jan. 1, and spring break from March 8 to March 12.<\/p>\n<p>The district will have additional holidays on Labor Day, Martin Luther King\u00a0Jr. Day and Memorial Day. It also will not hold classes on March 26, which is Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p>HISD has seven staff professional development days planned on Sept. 21, Oct. 9, Nov. 6, Jan. 4,\u00a0Feb. 15, April 16 and June 1, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonisd.org\/our-district\/district-calendar\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the district\u2019s 2026-27 calendar<\/a>. Students do not attend school on those days.<\/p>\n<p>Some of HISD\u2019s highest-performing schools that have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/education\/hisd\/article\/partnerships-high-schools-prekindergarten-22092193.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">new outside managers<\/a> may follow different academic calendars in the new school year.<\/p>\n<p>Students at Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts <a href=\"https:\/\/khspva.houstonisd.org\/our-families-students\/school-event-calendar\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will start on Aug. 18<\/a> \u2014 more than a week later than the rest of HISD \u2014 and end on May 27. The school will have the same holidays and staff development days as the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston\u00a0ISD students will return to class on Aug. 10 for the first day of school of the 2026-27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-389008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}