{"id":406427,"date":"2026-08-14T12:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406427\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:28:29","slug":"richardson-isd-students-return-to-campus-for-2026-27-school-year-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406427\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson ISD students return to campus for 2026-27 school year | Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richardson ISD<\/a> students returned to campuses Aug. 12 for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>RISD consists of four high schools, eight junior high and middle schools, 37 elementary schools and one alternative school.<\/p>\n<p>RISD <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/richardson\/education\/richardson-isd-secondary-schools-to-end-block-schedules-due-to-budget-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended block scheduling<\/a> at its secondary schools and moved back to a traditional bell schedule this school year as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/richardson\/education\/richardson-isd-secondary-schools-to-end-block-schedules-due-to-budget-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">district-wide budget cuts<\/a>. Middle schools and junior high students now attend eight 45-minute periods every day, while high school students attend seven 50-minute periods daily.<\/p>\n<p>The district also <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/richardson\/education\/middle-school-makeovers-668m-in-risd-middle-school-transformations-underway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began construction<\/a> this summer at its six junior high schools to complete its initiative to turn all junior highs into middle schools serving sixth through eighth grades.<\/p>\n<p>Dates to know<\/p>\n<p>First day of school: Aug. 12Fall break: Oct. 8-12Thanksgiving break: Nov. 23-27Winter break: Dec. 21-Jan. 5Spring break: March 15-19Last day of school: May 26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson ISD students returned to campuses Aug. 12 for the 2026-27 school year. The gist RISD consists of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[163,32077,62780,31515,12537,160,162,161,5810,5809,4119],"class_list":["post-406427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-education","tag-elementary","tag-first-day-of-school","tag-junior-high","tag-middle-school","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson-isd","tag-risd","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406427","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=406427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}