• August 24-First Day of School All Grades Except Kindergarten
• August 27- First Day of School Kindergarten
• June 8-Last Day of School All Students

• September 18 (Half Day)
• October 9 (Half Day) ,October 23 (Half Day)
• November 3(Election Day), November 20 (Half Day)
• December 18 (Half Day)
• January 20
• February 12(Half Day), February 26
• March 12 (Half Day)

All PPS Employee Holidays

• September 7-Labor Day
• November 11-Veterans Day Observation
• November 26-27- Thanksgiving
• December 24-25,31  Winter Break
• January 1 Winter Break
• Januaury18-MLK Day
• March-26-Spring Break
• May 31-Memorial Day
• June 19-Juneteenth
• July 5 Independence Day (observed)

• September 21-Yom Kippur
• December 28-30 - Winter Break
• March 10-Eid al-Fitr
• March 22-25-Spring Break
• May 18- Election Day

Parent-Teacher Conference Days

• October 12- 6-12, 9-12, Special, South Hills, EHS
• October 16- Early Childhood, PreK-5, PreK-8, 6-8

Clerical Days

• August 19, 21
• January 19

How does the calendar get developed?
Each year, an internal working committee of central office staff draft a school-year calendar reflecting the number of school days, teacher workdays, holidays and professional development days. The rules used to guide the development of the calendar are set by the Pennsylvania State Legislature (1949 Act 14 Article XV), the Pittsburgh Public Schools Board of Education (Policy 902) and the work-year terms outlined in the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers (PFT) Collective Bargaining Agreement (Article 53). The calendars meet the following requirements and laws:

When developing the school calendar, the District also takes into account the following additional considerations:

• Instructional days are scheduled with an academic focus so that students and teachers are in school for unbroken periods of instruction time.
• Eight (8) half-days/early dismissals are set aside for school and district-level professional development time.
• Breaks are scheduled so that teachers and students have consecutive days off in the winter and spring.
• Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Eid al-Fitr, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, News Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day and Memorial Day are school holidays.

The draft calendar is reviewed by the Superintendent’s Executive Cabinet, as well as the Executive Committee of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers. The approved calendar is communicated with families and staff on the District’s website and in a mailing. A staff-focused calendar is also developed and distributed prior to the end of the school year that includes employee pay dates. Staff and families also receive a 12-month flip calendar in the mail each August.