Douglas County School District Calendar 2026-27: Spring Break March 15-19, Last Day May 27

The Douglas County School District (DCSD) in Colorado has Thanksgiving break from Monday, Nov. 23 to Friday, Nov. 27, 2026, winter break from Monday, Dec. 21 to Thursday, Dec. 31, and spring break from Monday, March 15 to Friday, March 19, 2027, according to the district’s “Calendar at a Glance” page. All three are labeled “Schools Closed.” The last day of school for students is Thursday, May 27, 2027. This is the Castle Rock, Colorado district, not Douglas County in Georgia or Nevada.

Fall break (Oct. 12-16) is already past. The next day without students is tomorrow: Friday, Nov. 6, a professional development day. This story adds a count of student days off by the page’s three labels, weekdays off by month, the weekdays of school between breaks and the 2027-28 dates already posted on the same page. All counts are our arithmetic from the district’s dates. A printable school-year calendar is at the bottom.

Douglas County School District breaks at a glance

Break	District’s dates	Weekdays off	Students return
Fall Break (No Students)	Mon.-Fri., Oct. 12-16, 2026	5	Mon., Oct. 19, 2026
Thanksgiving Break (Schools Closed)	Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	5	Mon., Nov. 30, 2026
Winter Break (Schools Closed)	Mon., Dec. 21 to Thu., Dec. 31, 2026	9	Tue., Jan. 5, 2027
Spring Break (Schools Closed)	Mon.-Fri., March 15-19, 2027	5	Mon., March 22, 2027

The page prints no return days. They are the next weekdays that it does not list as off, which is our reading, not the district’s. For winter break that matters: Monday, Jan. 4 is “Teacher Work Day (No Students),” and Friday, Jan. 1 is listed only as “New Years Day (District Offices Closed).” Our Denver Public Schools calendar story covers the other large Colorado district, and the spring break 2027 roundup compares more districts.

Every Douglas County student day off in 2026-27

The page uses three labels: “(No Students),” “(Schools Closed)” and “(District Offices Closed).” The first two are days off for students. The third does not say.

Date	What the district lists	Label
Wed., Aug. 12, 2026	First Day of School
Mon., Sept. 21, 2026	Professional Development Day	No Students
Mon.-Fri., Oct. 12-16, 2026	Fall Break	No Students
Fri., Nov. 6, 2026	Professional Development Day	No Students
Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	Thanksgiving Break	Schools Closed
Wed., Nov. 25, 2026	Compensation Day, inside the break	Schools Closed
Fri., Dec. 18, 2026	Teacher Work Day	No Students
Mon., Dec. 21 to Thu., Dec. 31, 2026	Winter Break	Schools Closed
Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	Teacher Work Day	No Students
Fri., Feb. 12, 2027	Compensation Day	Schools Closed
Mon.-Fri., March 15-19, 2027	Spring Break	Schools Closed
Fri., April 23, 2027	Professional Development Day	No Students
Thu., May 27, 2027	Last Day of School for Students

Teachers also have days before the first day: Aug. 6 and Aug. 11 are teacher work days and Aug. 7 and Aug. 10 are professional development days, all with no students, and Aug. 4 and 5 are new teacher orientation. After the last day, Friday, May 28, 2027 is a teacher work day.

Which Douglas County holidays does the page leave unclear?

Four holidays carry only “(District Offices Closed)”: Labor Day (Mon., Sept. 7, 2026), Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day, listed as “MLK Holiday” (Mon., Jan. 18, 2027), Presidents Day (Mon., Feb. 15, 2027) and Memorial Day (Mon., May 31, 2027, after the last day). The page does not say whether students attend on those days, so we list them apart and do not count them as days off. New Years Day (Fri., Jan. 1, 2027) and the Thanksgiving Holiday on Nov. 26-27 carry the same label; the Nov. 26-27 days sit inside the break already marked “Schools Closed.” Check with your school before you plan around Sept. 7, Jan. 18 or Feb. 15.

The page and the district’s separate Academic Calendars page also give different board approval dates: “June 18, 2024” on the first and “June 9, 2026” on the second. We use the dates on the “Calendar at a Glance” page and do not choose between the two approval dates.

How many weekdays off does Douglas County have by month?

Counting the weekdays labeled “No Students” or “Schools Closed” between the first and last day, there are 30 in 2026-27: 20 labeled Schools Closed (Thanksgiving break 5, winter break 9, Feb. 12, spring break 5) and 10 labeled No Students (fall break 5, plus Sept. 21, Nov. 6, Dec. 18, Jan. 4 and April 23). The four unclear holidays are not counted.

Month	Weekdays off	Dates
August 2026	0
September 2026	1	Sept. 21
October 2026	5	Oct. 12-16
November 2026	6	Nov. 6 and Nov. 23-27
December 2026	10	Dec. 18 and Dec. 21-25, 28-31
January 2027	1	Jan. 4
February 2027	1	Feb. 12
March 2027	5	March 15-19
April 2027	1	April 23
May 2027	0
Total	30

December has the most. Counting Dec. 18 and Jan. 4, 11 of the 12 weekdays from Dec. 18 to Jan. 4 are listed with no students; the twelfth is Jan. 1. The December 2026 printable calendar shows the weeks.

How many school days fall between Douglas County breaks?

The stretches below are weekdays between the district’s listed days off for students. They include Labor Day, MLK Day and Presidents Day, because the page does not say those are student days off, so each stretch that holds one is an upper bound.

Stretch	Dates	Weekdays
First day to Sept. 21	Aug. 12 to Sept. 18, 2026	28 (includes Sept. 7)
Sept. 21 to fall break	Sept. 22 to Oct. 9, 2026	14
Fall break to Nov. 6	Oct. 19 to Nov. 5, 2026	14
Nov. 6 to Thanksgiving	Nov. 9 to Nov. 20, 2026	10
Thanksgiving to Dec. 18	Nov. 30 to Dec. 17, 2026	14
Winter break to Feb. 12	Jan. 5 to Feb. 11, 2027	28 (includes Jan. 18)
Feb. 12 to spring break	Feb. 15 to March 12, 2027	20 (includes Feb. 15)
Spring break to April 23	March 22 to April 22, 2027	24
April 23 to last day	April 26 to May 27, 2027	24
Total		176

Jan. 1 is left out of the table because it falls between the Dec. 31 end of winter break and the Jan. 4 work day. The 176 weekdays are not a district count of instructional days; the page does not give one. It also notes that the board may amend the calendar to “Provide additional school days on Saturdays, during vacations, or at the end of the present calendar” if schools must close.

When does Douglas County School District start winter break and spring break?

Winter break starts Monday, Dec. 21, 2026, after Friday, Dec. 18, a teacher work day with no students. It runs through Thursday, Dec. 31. The page lists Christmas Holiday on Dec. 24-25 as “District Offices Closed” inside the break. The next weekday after Jan. 1 is Jan. 4, a teacher work day, so Tuesday, Jan. 5 is our reading of the return.

Spring break is Monday through Friday, March 15-19, 2027, and no other days off sit beside it in the list. The March 2027 printable calendar shows the week. The last day of school is Thursday, May 27, 2027.

What are the Douglas County School District 2027-28 dates?

The same page already lists later school years too. The 2027-28 entries, as posted on Nov. 5, 2026:

Event	2027-28 date on the page
First Day of School	Wed., Aug. 11, 2027
Fall Break (no Students)	Mon.-Fri., Oct. 11-15, 2027
Thanksgiving Break (Schools Closed)	Mon.-Fri., Nov. 22-26, 2027
Winter Break (Schools Closed)	Mon., Dec. 20 to Fri., Dec. 31, 2027
First Day of Semester	Tue., Jan. 4, 2028
Spring Break (Schools Closed)	Mon.-Fri., March 20-24, 2028
Last Day of School for Students	Fri., May 26, 2028

The 2027-28 list also adds Friday entries marked “Delayed Start,” starting with Aug. 20, 2027. The 2026-27 list has none. The page does not say whether the board has approved the later years.

Print the Douglas County School District calendar

The printable puts the first and last day, the breaks and the no-student days on a 10-month sheet. It draws only days the page labels “No Students” or “Schools Closed,” and prints the unclear holidays and the missing return day as unconfirmed. Our printable school-year calendar has a blank layout. Other large districts have their own calendars, such as our Clark County School District story.