Fayette County Schools Calendar 2026-27: Winter Break Dec. 21-Jan. 1

The Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS) 2026-27 calendar lists winter break from Monday, Dec. 21, 2026 through Friday, Jan. 1, 2027, spring break from Monday through Friday, April 5-9, 2027, and a last day of classes on Wednesday, May 26, 2027, “pending make-up days”, according to the district’s “2026-27 FCPS Instructional Calendar for Students & Families.” The Fayette County Board of Education approved it on June 23, 2025, and the cover says it is “subject to change.” Tables below give the weekdays off for each break, the four possible weather make-up days and a comparison with 2025-26.

The printable school-year calendar at the bottom of the page puts the district’s dates on one sheet.

Fayette County school breaks at a glance

The district’s wording is in the first column. Return days are our reading of the printed dates: the district prints “Students return to school” for Jan. 5 only, and the April 13 return follows from April 12 being listed as “No classes for students”.

Break	District’s dates	Weekdays off	Students return
Fall Break	Mon.-Fri., Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2026, then Mon., Oct. 5 (no classes)	6	Tue., Oct. 6
Thanksgiving Break	Wed.-Fri., Nov. 25-27, 2026	3	Mon., Nov. 30
Winter Break	Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027, then Mon., Jan. 4 (no classes)	11	Tue., Jan. 5, 2027
Spring Break	Mon.-Fri., April 5-9, 2027, then Mon., April 12 (no classes)	6	Tue., April 13, 2027

Counting weekends, students are out from Saturday, Dec. 19 through Monday, Jan. 4, 17 days in a row. Spring break runs from Saturday, April 3 through Monday, April 12, 10 days. Fall break covers Saturday, Sept. 26 through Monday, Oct. 5, also 10 days.

When is Fayette County winter break 2026?

Winter break runs Monday, Dec. 21, 2026 through Friday, Jan. 1, 2027, 10 weekdays. The district lists Monday, Jan. 4 as “No classes for students” and Tuesday, Jan. 5 as “Students return to school”. The last school day before the break is Friday, Dec. 18, since no earlier day off is listed that week. The December 2026 printable calendar shows the weeks, and our winter break 2026 roundup lists other districts. For Thanksgiving, see the Thanksgiving break 2026 roundup.

Every FCPS day off in 2026-27

These are the days the calendar lists as closed or without classes, between the first day on Aug. 12, 2026 and the May 26, 2027 last day.

Date	What the district lists
Mon., Sept. 7, 2026	Labor Day; schools & offices closed
Mon.-Fri., Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2026	Fall Break
Mon., Oct. 5, 2026	No classes for students
Tue., Nov. 3, 2026	Election Day; no classes for students
Wed.-Fri., Nov. 25-27, 2026	Thanksgiving Break; schools & offices closed
Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027	Winter Break
Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	No classes for students
Mon., Jan. 18, 2027	Martin Luther King Jr. Day; schools & offices closed
Mon., Feb. 15, 2027	Presidents Day; schools & offices closed
Fri., March 19, 2027	No classes; possible weather make-up day
Mon.-Fri., April 5-9, 2027	Spring Break
Mon., April 12, 2027	No classes for students
Tue., May 18, 2027	Election primaries; no classes for students

Without March 19, that is 31 weekdays off by the district’s dates. Labor Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents Day fall on Mondays and make three-day weekends. The calendar shows no early-release days and no grading-period end dates. William Wells Brown Elementary, a Promise Academy school, “follows a slightly different calendar.”

How do FCPS weather make-up days work?

The calendar says FCPS “schedules weather make-up days at the superintendent’s discretion” and updates its online calendars and PDFs after each official announcement. The district’s calendar page adds that “The PDFs will be updated as weather make-up days are confirmed.” Four dates on the 2026-27 calendar are marked as possible make-up days.

Date	What the district lists	Effect on the last day
Fri., March 19, 2027	No classes; possible weather make-up day	None on its own
Wed., May 26, 2027	Last day of classes for students (pending make-up days)	The listed last day
Thu., May 27, 2027	Possible weather make-up day	Moves the last day to May 27 if used
Fri., May 28, 2027	Possible weather make-up day	Moves the last day to May 28 if used
Mon., May 31, 2027	Memorial Day; schools & offices closed	No school
Tue., June 1, 2027	Possible weather make-up day	Moves the last day to June 1 if used

The calendar does not say in what order the days are used, so the effect column is our reading of the printed dates. If every make-up day in late May were needed, the latest possible last day would be Tuesday, June 1, 2027, after Memorial Day. The May 2027 printable calendar shows how those days fall.

How does FCPS 2026-27 compare with 2025-26?

The district’s 2025-26 calendar, which it approved on July 22, 2024 and amended on Dec. 19, 2024, gives last year’s dates for the same breaks.

Item	2025-26 (last year)	2026-27
First day for students	Wed., Aug. 13, 2025	Wed., Aug. 12, 2026
Winter Break	Mon., Dec. 22, 2025 to Fri., Jan. 2, 2026	Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027
No classes after winter break	Mon., Jan. 5, 2026	Mon., Jan. 4, 2027
Students return	Tue., Jan. 6, 2026	Tue., Jan. 5, 2027
Spring Break	Mon.-Fri., April 6-10, 2026	Mon.-Fri., April 5-9, 2027
No classes after spring break	Mon., April 13, 2026	Mon., April 12, 2027

Each date in this table falls one day earlier on the calendar than last year’s. Winter break is 10 weekdays off in both years.

What the FCPS calendar does not say

The calendar does not give the order for make-up days, and it says it is subject to change. The district’s page links the “2026-27 Instructional Calendar (K-12)” and notes that “All calendars are subject to change.” Check fcps.net before booking travel around the make-up days in March and late May.

Print the Fayette County schools calendar

The printable shows the first day, fall break, Thanksgiving break, winter break, spring break, the no-class days, the possible make-up days and the last day on an 11-month sheet from August 2026 to June 2027, with space to write in conferences.