Greenville County Schools Calendar 2026-27: Winter Break, Spring Break, Last Day

Greenville County Schools (GCS) students are off Wednesday, Nov. 25 through Friday, Nov. 27, 2026 for Thanksgiving break, Monday, Dec. 21, 2026 through Friday, Jan. 1, 2027 for winter break, and Monday through Friday, March 22-26, 2027 for spring break, according to the district’s 2026-27 calendar feed. The last day of school is Thursday, May 27, 2027.

The district’s own calendar page says the 2026-27 student calendar was “released in December 2024 and updated in May 2025.” This story pulls every student day off from the district’s iCal feed into one table, adds the grading-period dates and report card dates, and counts what is left after Nov. 4, 2026. A free one-page printable is below, and our printable school-year calendar for 2026-27 has room for your own notes.

Greenville County Schools days off for students, 2026-27

The feed labels each of these a student holiday unless noted. Nov. 2 and Nov. 3 have already passed, and Oct. 16 is past too; they stay in the table so you can check your own records.

Date	What the GCS calendar lists
Tue., Aug. 11, 2026	First day of school
Mon., Sept. 7, 2026	Labor Day
Fri., Oct. 16, 2026	Teacher professional development (PD) day
Mon., Nov. 2, 2026	Teacher PD day
Tue., Nov. 3, 2026	Election Day
Wed.-Fri., Nov. 25-27, 2026	Thanksgiving break
Fri., Dec. 18, 2026	Student half-day; the last day before winter break
Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 1, 2027	Winter break
Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	Teacher PD day; students return Tue., Jan. 5
Mon., Jan. 18, 2027	Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day
Mon., Feb. 15, 2027	Presidents’ Day
Fri., March 12, 2027	Teacher PD day
Mon.-Fri., March 22-26, 2027	Spring break
Mon., March 29, 2027	Student and teacher holiday
Fri., April 16, 2027	Student and teacher holiday
Wed., May 26, 2027	Student half-day
Thu., May 27, 2027	Last day of school (also listed as a student half-day)

The feed lists no early dismissals or weather make-up days. It does not give a count of student days, so this story does not either.

When does the Greenville County Schools winter break 2026 start?

The last day before winter break is Friday, Dec. 18, 2026, a student half-day that also closes the 2nd quarter grading period. Winter break then runs Monday, Dec. 21 through Friday, Jan. 1, 2027. Monday, Jan. 4 is a teacher PD day, and students return Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027, a date the district’s release on Greenville.com also gives.

Counting weekends, that is our own arithmetic: 17 straight days without class, from Saturday, Dec. 19 through Monday, Jan. 4. The 2nd quarter report card is dated Thursday, Jan. 7, 2027. See the December 2026 printable calendar for the weeks, or the winter break dates by school district to compare other districts.

What are the Greenville County Schools Thanksgiving break dates?

Thanksgiving break is Wednesday, Nov. 25 through Friday, Nov. 27, 2026. The feed lists the break only for those three weekdays, so students are in class Monday, Nov. 23 and Tuesday, Nov. 24 and back Monday, Nov. 30. With the weekends, the days away run from Saturday, Nov. 21 through Sunday, Nov. 29, nine days by our count. Our Thanksgiving break dates by school district table compares other districts.

When is GCS spring break 2027, and what comes after it?

Spring break is Monday through Friday, March 22-26, 2027. The district’s release on Greenville.com gives the same range and adds that “students are out of school on March 29 and April 16, 2027.” Both days are in the feed as student and teacher holidays. By our count, students are away from Saturday, March 20 through Monday, March 29, ten days, and return Tuesday, March 30. The 3rd quarter grading period ends Thursday, March 11, a teacher PD day follows on Friday, March 12, and the 3rd quarter report card is dated Thursday, March 18. The March 2027 printable calendar shows the weeks.

Grading periods and report card dates

Quarter	Grading period ends	Report card date in the feed
1st	Thu., Oct. 15, 2026	Thu., Oct. 22, 2026
2nd	Fri., Dec. 18, 2026	Thu., Jan. 7, 2027
3rd	Thu., March 11, 2027	Thu., March 18, 2027
4th	Thu., May 27, 2027	Not in the feed

How many weekdays of class are left between GCS breaks?

Counted from the feed on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, here are the stretches of school between breaks. The count is Monday-through-Friday days with no day off listed, and it includes the half-days. It is our arithmetic, not a district total.

Stretch	Weekdays with no day off listed	Days from Nov. 4 to the break
Nov. 4-24, 2026, then Thanksgiving break	15	21 days to Nov. 25
Nov. 30-Dec. 18, 2026, then winter break	15	47 days to Dec. 21
Jan. 5-March 19, 2027, then spring break	51	138 days to March 22
March 30-May 27, 2027, then summer	42	204 days to May 27

Still ahead after Nov. 4, the feed lists 24 weekdays with no school at all: 3 for Thanksgiving, 11 for winter break and the Jan. 4 teacher PD day, 1 each for MLK Day, Presidents’ Day and March 12, 5 for spring break, and 1 each for March 29 and April 16. Four of the single days sit next to a weekend and make a three-day weekend: Monday, Jan. 18, Monday, Feb. 15, Friday, March 12 and Friday, April 16.

Graduations are separate from student days: the district’s release lists high school graduations for May 24-27, 2027.

Print the Greenville County Schools calendar for 2026-27

The printable marks the first day, every break, student holiday and half-day above and the last day on one page, with spare lines for report cards and picture day. It uses the district feed’s dates only. The district’s calendar page also lists a 2027-28 student calendar, “released in December 2025”; we could not read its dates, so they are not covered here. Nearby, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools calendar gives the North Carolina side.