Board approves 2022-23 school calendar 

Get ready to mark your calendars: The Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District 2022-23 school-year calendar is now available.

At its March 21 meeting, the J-D Board of Education approved the calendar, which sets school holidays, vacation weeks and days off for students due to staff development days. Once school and district events and activities are scheduled for the new school year, that information will be added to the district’s website calendar, which is the most up-to-date resource for families and community members.

Religious and ethnic observances

The Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District serves children from many different religious and ethnic backgrounds, and a goal of the district’s strategic plan is to provide a safe, caring, inclusive, equitable and challenging learning environment that is free from discrimination and harassment and to building a community that recognizes diversity as one of its four greatest strengths. 

Because no Jamesville-DeWitt student should ever have to choose between important religious observances and academic or athletic commitments, the district provides for students who wish to participate in any religious observances that conflict with other obligations to make arrangements with their teachers and coaches to do so and shall be provided an opportunity to make up such requirements that may have been missed. 

2022-23 school-year calendar

Aug. 31 and Sept. 1: No school (Superintendent Conference Days)

Sept. 5: No school (Labor Day)

Sept. 6: First day of classes 

Sept. 26: No school (Rosh Hashanah)

Oct. 5: No school (Yom Kippur)

Oct. 10: No school (Columbus Day)

Nov. 8: No school (Superintendent Conference Day/Election Day)

Nov. 11: No school (Veterans Day)

Nov. 10 and 14: Grades K-4 ONLY Half-day classes (morning)/Parent conferences (afternoon)

Nov. 23-25: No school (Thanksgiving Recess)

Dec. 26 to Jan. 2: No school (Winter/New Year’s Recess)

Jan. 16: No school (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

Jan. 23-26: Regents exams

Jan. 30: Second semester begins

Feb. 20-24: No school (Presidents Day/Mid-Winter Recess)

March 13: No school (Superintendent Conference Day) 

April 3-7: No school (Spring Recess/Good Friday)

May 29: No school (Memorial Day)

June 14-22: Regents exams

June 19: No school (Juneteenth)

June 23: Half-day/Last day of classes

School may not be in session on May 25 and/or May 26 based on the number of emergency closing days used. 

Religious and ethnic observance dates

These additional dates of cultural importance are included for reference but may not indicate a school recess. 

Sept. 26: Navarati begins

Oct. 9: Sukkot begins

Oct. 24: Diwali

Dec. 18: Hanukkah begins

Dec. 25: Christmas

Dec. 26: Kwanzaa begins

Jan. 2: New Year’s Day

Jan. 22: Lunar New Year

March 6: Purim

March 8: Holi

March 22: Ramadan begins

April 5: Passover begins

April 7: Good Friday

April 8: Vesak Day

April 9: Easter

April 14: Orthodox Good Friday

April 16: Orthodox Easter

April 22: Eid Al-Fitr

May 25: Shavuot begins