Elk Grove Unified Calendar 2026-27: Winter Break Dec. 23-Jan. 1, Spring Break Mar. 15-19

Elk Grove Unified School District (EGUSD) students are off Monday, Nov. 23 to Friday, Nov. 27, 2026 for Thanksgiving, from Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2026 to Friday, Jan. 1, 2027 for winter break, and from Monday, March 15 to Friday, March 19, 2027 for spring break, according to the “2026-2027 School Year Calendar (Traditional)” PDF the district posted this fall. The last day of school on that calendar is Thursday, May 27, 2027.

The district’s older board-approved calendar says something different about winter break, and copies of that 2024 version exist. This story shows both side by side, adds the weekday for every date, lays out the Modified Traditional and Track calendars in their own table, and compares Elk Grove with Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego. A printable school-year calendar is at the bottom of the page.

Elk Grove Unified traditional calendar breaks at a glance

The district’s Calendars page lists 2026-27 PDFs in English and Spanish: the main calendar, Traditional, Modified Traditional and Tracks A to D. The table uses the Traditional PDF. Weekdays off are our arithmetic, and the return days are our reading of the grid.

Break	District’s dates	Weekdays off	Students return (our reading)
Thanksgiving Break	Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	5	Mon., Nov. 30, 2026
Winter Break	Wed., Dec. 23, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027	8	Tue., Jan. 5, 2027 (Mon., Jan. 4 is an inservice day)
Spring Break	Mon.-Fri., March 15-19, 2027	5	Mon., March 22, 2027

Winter break includes Friday, Dec. 25 and Friday, Jan. 1. The December 2026 printable calendar shows the weeks around it.

Which Elk Grove Unified winter break dates are right?

Two district PDFs disagree. The traditional-calendar PDF the district posted this fall prints “Dec. 23 - Jan. 1, Winter Break” and marks Monday, Jan. 4, 2027 “IS 4”, an inservice day with no students. The board version, approved 11/19/24, prints “Dec. 21 - Jan. 4, Winter Break, Trad.”

	Board version (approved 11/19/24)	Newer Traditional PDF
Winter break listed	Dec. 21 - Jan. 4	Dec. 23 - Jan. 1
First day off	Mon., Dec. 21, 2026	Wed., Dec. 23, 2026
Last day of the break	Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	Fri., Jan. 1, 2027
Weekdays off (our count)	11	8
Mon., Dec. 21 and Tue., Dec. 22	Break	School days
Mon., Jan. 4	Break	Inservice day, no students

We use the Traditional PDF’s dates as the current ones because it is the newer file. The district’s page does not explain the change, and we do not guess at one. If your plans depend on Dec. 21-22, confirm with your school before you book travel.

Every Elk Grove Unified traditional calendar date, with weekdays

All dates come from the Traditional PDF. The legend “IS” means “Inservice/Professional Learning Day”.

Date	What the district lists
Mon.-Wed., Aug. 10-12, 2026 (past)	Inservice days, IS 10, IS 11 and IS 12
Thu., Aug. 13, 2026 (past)	First day of school
Mon., Sept. 7, 2026 (past)	Labor Day
Wed., Nov. 11, 2026	Veterans Day
Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	Thanksgiving Break
Wed., Dec. 23, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027	Winter Break
Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	Inservice day (IS 4)
Mon., Jan. 18, 2027	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Mon., Feb. 8, 2027	Lincoln’s Birthday
Mon., Feb. 15, 2027	Presidents Day
Mon.-Fri., March 15-19, 2027	Spring Break
Thu., May 27, 2027	Last day of school
Mon., May 31, 2027	Memorial Day

The PDF also prints Independence Day (observed Friday, July 3, 2026) and Juneteenth, with the observed date June 18, 2027, both outside the school year. Early release days and the number of instructional days are not in the district pages we read, so this story does not list them. We did not find a 2027-28 calendar posted.

Elk Grove Unified Modified Traditional and Track calendars

The board PDF also lists dates for the other calendars. These differ from the Traditional calendar, so they sit in their own table. The sources we read do not say which schools use which calendar; check your school’s page. Track spring breaks are not listed on the track calendars.

Calendar	First day	Winter break	Spring break	Last day
Modified Traditional	Thu., Aug. 13, 2026	Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Mon., Jan. 11, 2027	Mon.-Fri., March 15-26, 2027	Fri., June 11, 2027
Track A	Mon., Aug. 17, 2026	Wed., Dec. 23, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027	Not listed on the track calendars	Fri., June 25, 2027
Tracks B and C	Wed., July 15, 2026	Track C: Dec. 23 to Jan. 1; Track B not listed in the board PDF’s winter-break line	Not listed on the track calendars	Fri., June 25, 2027
Track D	Wed., July 15, 2026	Wed., Dec. 23, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027	Not listed on the track calendars	Thu., May 27, 2027

Modified Traditional winter break is 16 weekdays by our count, and its spring break is 10 weekdays, March 15 to 26.

How does the Elk Grove Unified calendar compare with Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego?

Dates for the other three districts come from our stories on Fresno Unified, Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified, which cite each district’s own 2026-27 calendar. Elk Grove’s column is the Traditional calendar.

	Elk Grove Unified	Fresno Unified	Los Angeles Unified	San Diego Unified
First day	Thu., Aug. 13, 2026	Mon., Aug. 17, 2026	Wed., Aug. 12, 2026	Mon., Aug. 10, 2026
Thanksgiving	Nov. 23-27	Nov. 23-27	Nov. 23-27	Nov. 23-27
Winter break	Dec. 23 to Jan. 1	Dec. 21 to Jan. 8	Dec. 21 to Jan. 8	Dec. 21 to Jan. 4
Winter weekdays off (our count)	8	15	15	11
Spring break	March 15-19	March 22-29	March 22-26	March 29 to April 2
Last day	Thu., May 27, 2027	Thu., June 10, 2027	Fri., June 4, 2027	Wed., May 26, 2027

Elk Grove’s winter break is the shortest of the four, and its spring break comes a week before Fresno’s and Los Angeles’s and two weeks before San Diego’s. Its last day is one day after San Diego’s.

Print the Elk Grove Unified school-year calendar

The printable puts the first and last day, the three breaks and the holidays from the Traditional calendar on a 10-month sheet, with space for notes. It lists what the district does not say, including the Dec. 21-22 question. Our printable school-year calendar has a blank layout for other schools and calendars.