Get ready to mark your calendars: the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District 2024-25 school-year calendar is now available.
At its March 4 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.
2024-25 school calendar
Aug. 28 and Aug. 29: No school (Superintendent Conference Days)
Sept. 2: No school (Labor Day)
Sept. 3: First day of classes
Oct. 3: No school (Navaratri)(Rosh Hashanah)
Oct. 14: No school (Columbus Day)
Oct. 18: Half-day
Nov. 5: No school (Superintendent Conference Day)
Nov. 11: No school (Veterans Day)
Nov. 8 and 12: Grades preK-6 ONLY Half-day classes (morning)/parent conferences (afternoon)
Nov. 27-29: No school (Thanksgiving Recess)
Dec. 23 to Jan. 3: No school (Winter/New Year’s Recess)
Jan. 20: No school (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
Jan. 21-24: Regents exams
Jan. 24: Half-day
Jan. 27: Second semester begins
Jan. 29: No school (Lunar New Year, work day for 12 month employees)
Feb. 17-21: No school (Presidents Day/Mid-Winter Recess)
March 31: No school (Superintendent Conference Day)
April 14-18: No school (Spring Recess/Good Friday)
May 26: No school (Memorial Day)
June 6: No school (Eid al-Adha)
June 17-27: Regents exams
June 19: No school (Juneteenth)
June 26: Half-day
June 27: Half-day, last day of classes
School may not be in session on May 22 and/or May 23 based on the number of emergency closing days used.
Religious and ethnic observance dates are included for reference but may not indicate a school recess.
Oct. 12: Yom Kippur
Oct. 16: Sukkot begins
Nov. 1: Diwali
Dec. 25: Hanukkah begins
Dec. 25: Christmas
Dec. 26: Kwanzaa begins
Jan. 1: New Year’s Day
Feb. 28: Ramadan begins
March 13: Purim
March 14: Holi
April 12: Passover begins
April 18: Good Friday, Orthodox Good Friday
April 20: Easter, Orthodox Easter
April 24: Yom Hashoah
May 12: Vesak Day
June 1: Shavuot begins