Forsyth County Schools Calendar 2026-27: Winter Break Dec. 21-31, Spring Break Apr. 5-9

Forsyth County Schools (FCS) in Cumming, Georgia, has Thanksgiving break from Monday, Nov. 23 through Friday, Nov. 27, 2026, a holiday break on Dec. 21-31 and spring break from Monday through Friday, April 5-9, 2027, according to the “2026-27 Student Calendar” on the Forsyth County School District website. The last day of school is Thursday, May 27, 2027. This is the district in Forsyth County, Georgia, not Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina.

The first day of school was Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, and fall break (Sept. 28 to Oct. 2) is already past. Forsyth County News reported that the Board of Education approved the 2026-27 calendar; the district page gives no approval date. This story adds a table of every student day off, weekdays off by month, the school days between breaks and a side-by-side with Gwinnett County, all computed from the district’s dates. A printable school-year calendar is at the bottom of the page.

Forsyth County Schools breaks at a glance

Weekday counts and return days are our arithmetic from the district’s dates. The district does not print return days, so each is the next weekday its calendar does not list as off.

Break	District’s dates	Weekdays off	Students return
Fall Break (past)	Mon.-Fri., Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 2026	5	Mon., Oct. 5, 2026
Thanksgiving Break	Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	5	Mon., Nov. 30, 2026
Holiday Break, New Year’s Day and Jan. 4	Mon., Dec. 21 to Thu., Dec. 31, 2026; Fri., Jan. 1 and Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	11	Tue., Jan. 5, 2027
February break	Fri., Feb. 12 to Mon., Feb. 15, 2027, plus Tue., Feb. 16	3	Wed., Feb. 17, 2027
Spring Break	Mon.-Fri., April 5-9, 2027	5	Mon., April 12, 2027

The district lists Dec. 21-31 as “Holiday Break – Student/Staff Holiday,” New Year’s Day on Jan. 1 as a “Student/Staff Holiday” and Jan. 4 as “Professional Development (Student Holiday).” Together, students are out from Saturday, Dec. 19 through Monday, Jan. 4, which is 17 days in a row counting weekends. Friday, Dec. 18 is an all-grades early-release day. The December 2026 printable calendar shows the weeks.

Why is the Forsyth County February break five days long?

The district lists “February 12–15: Student/Staff Holiday” and “February 16: Professional Development (Student Holiday).” Feb. 12 is a Friday and Feb. 15 is a Monday, so the break is a four-day weekend. Adding the Tuesday professional development day, students are out Friday through Tuesday, with only three weekdays missed: Feb. 12, 15 and 16. The page does not name Presidents’ Day.

Every Forsyth County student day off in 2026-27

Date	What the district lists
Thu., Aug. 6, 2026	First day of school
Fri., Sept. 4, 2026	All Grades (K-12) Early Release (a school day)
Mon., Sept. 7, 2026	Labor Day, Student/Staff Holiday
Mon.-Wed., Sept. 28-30, 2026	Fall Break, Student/Staff Holidays
Thu.-Fri., Oct. 1-2, 2026	Fall Break, Student/Staff Holidays
Mon., Oct. 19, 2026	Professional Development (Student Holiday)
Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	Student/Staff Holidays (Thanksgiving Break)
Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Thu., Dec. 31, 2026	Holiday Break, Student/Staff Holiday
Fri., Jan. 1, 2027	New Year’s Day, Student/Staff Holiday
Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	Professional Development (Student Holiday)
Mon., Jan. 18, 2027	Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day, Student/Staff Holiday
Fri., Feb. 12 to Mon., Feb. 15, 2027	Student/Staff Holiday
Tue., Feb. 16, 2027	Professional Development (Student Holiday)
Mon., March 15, 2027	Professional Development (Student Holiday)
Mon.-Fri., April 5-9, 2027	Spring Break, Student/Staff Holidays
Thu., May 27, 2027	All Grades (K-12) Early Release; last day of school

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 (Election Day) is not listed as a day off, and neither is Memorial Day, which falls on Monday, May 31, 2027, after the last day of school. The November student-day count supports the Nov. 3 reading: the district counts 16 student days in November 2026, which is that month’s 21 weekdays minus the five Thanksgiving weekdays (our arithmetic).

Which Forsyth County online learning days are not days off?

The legend marks “OL” as “K-12 Online Learning/Parent Conference.” The district lists these OL days:

• Friday, Oct. 16, 2026: K-12 Online Learning/Parent Conference (past).
• Friday, March 12, 2027: K-12 Online Learning/Parent Conference.
• May 10-14, 2027: Online Learning for high schools.
• May 20-21, 2027: Online Learning for graduating high schools.

None is called a holiday. The district’s monthly student-day counts include them: October 2026 shows 19 student days, which is 22 weekdays minus three fall break days, so Oct. 16 is counted (our arithmetic). Check your school’s own instructions for what students do on those days; the calendar page does not say. The district also lists early release on Sept. 4 and Dec. 18 for all grades and on Dec. 16-17 and May 24-26 for high school (grades 9-12) only, with exams noted; the district counts them in its student days.

How many weekdays off does Forsyth County have each month?

Counting every weekday the district lists as a student holiday, there are 33 weekdays off between Aug. 6, 2026 and May 27, 2027. Online learning days and early-release days are school days and are not counted as off. December has the most, nine, and the district’s monthly student-day counts are in the last column.

Month	Weekdays off	District’s student days
August 2026	0	18
September 2026	4	18
October 2026	3	19
November 2026	5	16
December 2026	9	14
January 2027	3	18
February 2027	3	17
March 2027	1	22
April 2027	5	17
May 2027	0	19
Total	33	178

The 178 matches the district’s “Total student days: 178.” It lists 85 student days in the first semester and 93 in the second, and 190 staff days. The April 2027 printable calendar shows the spring break week.

How many school days fall between Forsyth County breaks?

These stretches are weekdays of school between the district’s days off, including online learning and early-release days, which the district counts as student days. The final stretch is the longest, almost seven weeks of school from the Monday after spring break.

Stretch	Dates	Weekdays of school
Start to Labor Day weekend	Aug. 6 to Sept. 4, 2026	22
Labor Day to fall break	Sept. 8 to Sept. 25, 2026	14
Fall break to Oct. 19	Oct. 5 to Oct. 16, 2026	10
Oct. 19 to Thanksgiving	Oct. 20 to Nov. 20, 2026	24
Thanksgiving to holiday break	Nov. 30 to Dec. 18, 2026	15
Holiday break to MLK Day	Jan. 5 to Jan. 15, 2027	9
MLK Day to February break	Jan. 19 to Feb. 11, 2027	18
February break to March 15	Feb. 17 to March 12, 2027	18
March 15 to spring break	March 16 to April 2, 2027	14
Spring break to last day	April 12 to May 27, 2027	34
Total		178

How does the Forsyth County calendar compare with Gwinnett County?

Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) posts its own calendar; our Gwinnett County calendar story uses the “2026-27 School Year Calendar” PDF listed in this story’s sources. The two districts match on several dates and differ on others.

Item	Forsyth County Schools	Gwinnett County Public Schools
First day	Thu., Aug. 6, 2026	Wed., Aug. 5, 2026
Fall break	Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 2026	Oct. 12-16, 2026
Thanksgiving break	Nov. 23-27, 2026	Nov. 23-27, 2026
Winter break	Dec. 21-31, plus Jan. 1	Dec. 21, 2026 to Jan. 1, 2027
Jan. 4, 2027	Professional development (student holiday)	Student holiday
February	Feb. 12-16, 2027	Feb. 12, 15 and 16, 2027
Spring break	April 5-9, 2027	Apr. 5-9, 2027
Last day	Thu., May 27, 2027	Wed., May 26, 2027
Weekdays off before the last day	33	31

Both districts are off for Thanksgiving, winter break, February and spring break on the same weekdays. The two-day difference in weekdays off comes from two Forsyth professional development days that Gwinnett’s calendar does not list as student holidays: Monday, Oct. 19, 2026 and Monday, March 15, 2027 (our arithmetic from both calendars). Gwinnett’s fall break falls two weeks after Forsyth’s.

When does the Forsyth County 2027-28 calendar start and end?

The district’s 2027-28 page lists the first day of school as August 5, 2027 and the last day as May 25, 2028, with 178 student days and 190 staff days. It lists “December 20–31: Holiday Break – Student/Staff Holiday” and “February 18–21: Student/Staff Holiday.” By our calculation, Dec. 20, 2027 is a Monday and Feb. 18-21, 2028 runs Friday through Monday. The district’s calendar hub also lists a draft 2028-29 student calendar open for feedback, which we have not used for dates.

Print the Forsyth County school-year calendar

The printable puts the first and last day, the breaks, the holidays, the professional development student holidays, the online learning days and the early-release days on a 10-month sheet, with space to write in conferences. It uses only the district’s dates. Our printable school-year calendar has a blank layout, and Cobb and Fulton counties have their own stories: Cobb County and Fulton County.