Sacramento City Unified Calendar 2026-27: Winter Break Dec. 21-Jan. 4, Last Day May 27

Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) students are off Monday, Nov. 23 to Friday, Nov. 27, 2026 for fall break, from Monday, Dec. 21, 2026 to Monday, Jan. 4, 2027 for winter break, and from Monday, March 22 to Monday, March 29, 2027 for spring break, according to the district’s Academic Calendars page. The last day of school is Thursday, May 27, 2027.

The district’s Board of Education approved the 2026-27 student calendar in January 2026. This story adds the weekday and the number of weekdays off for every no-school day, points out that spring break runs through a Monday, and ends with a printable school-year calendar.

Sacramento City Unified 2026-27 breaks at a glance

The board post lists “2026 Fall Break: November 23-27”, “2026-27 Winter Break: December 21-January 4” and “2027 Spring Break: March 22-29”. The table uses the dates from the district’s Academic Calendars page. Weekdays off are our arithmetic.

Break	District’s dates	Weekdays off (our count)
Fall Break	Mon., Nov. 23 to Fri., Nov. 27, 2026	5
Winter Break	Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	11
Spring Break	Mon., March 22 to Mon., March 29, 2027	6

Winter break includes Friday, Dec. 25 and Friday, Jan. 1. The district’s traditional attendance calendar PDF, footer “updated 1-21-2026”, marks Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027 as the semester start on its legend; the district’s page does not print a return date as text. The November 2026 printable calendar shows the weeks around fall break.

How long is SCUSD spring break 2027?

The district’s page lists Spring Break as Monday, March 22, 2027 through Monday, March 29, 2027. On the traditional attendance calendar PDF, the spring break shading covers March 22-26 and Monday, March 29. That is a school week plus the following Monday, 6 weekdays in all.

The extra Monday follows Easter Sunday, March 28, 2027; the district does not give a reason for it. The same PDF shows Tuesday, March 30 as a school day, so a trip planned around a Monday-to-Friday week can stretch one more day.

Every SCUSD no-school day for 2026-27, with weekdays

The district’s Academic Calendars page lists these non-school days. The first day was Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, and the last day is Thursday, May 27, 2027. The attendance calendar PDF counts 180 student attendance days.

Date	What the district lists	Weekdays off (our count)
Mon., Sept. 7, 2026 (past)	Labor Day	1
Mon., Oct. 12, 2026 (past)	Indigenous Peoples’ Day	1
Wed., Nov. 11, 2026 (past)	Veterans’ Day	1
Mon., Nov. 23 to Fri., Nov. 27, 2026	Fall Break	5
Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Mon., Jan. 4, 2027	Winter Break	11
Mon., Jan. 18, 2027	Martin Luther King Jr. Day	1
Mon., Feb. 8, 2027	Lincoln’s Birthday	1
Mon., Feb. 15, 2027	Presidents’ Day	1
Mon., March 22 to Mon., March 29, 2027	Spring Break	6

Those rows add up to 28 weekdays off by our count. Lincoln’s Birthday is on Monday, Feb. 8, 2027, one week before Presidents’ Day, so February has two three-day weekends back to back. Early-release and minimum days are not in the district pages we read, so this story does not list them.

Why did the Sacramento City Unified calendar change?

The board post says the 2026-27 calendar “includes an earlier start date and end date than in years past.” The district says the change brings its calendar closer to those of neighboring school districts and “was the result of collaboration with labor partners, and the feedback from our families.”

Our Elk Grove Unified and Fresno Unified stories cover those districts’ calendars. Our winter break 2026 school districts story has more districts.

Do the dependent charters follow the SCUSD calendar?

No. The board post says “New Joseph Bonnheim, Sacramento New Tech, and The Met operate on a different academic calendar.” The district’s Academic Calendars page links separate calendars for its dependent charters. If your child attends one of them, use that school’s own calendar, not the dates above.

Print the Sacramento City Unified school-year calendar

The printable puts the first and last day, the three breaks and the holidays from the district’s list on a 10-month sheet, with space for notes. Our printable school-year calendar has a blank layout for other schools and calendars.