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Key Dates for the 2022-2023 School Year:
First Day
Students- All Grades except Kindergarten Monday, August 29, 2022
Kindergarten Students Thursday, September 1, 2022
SDSS and 11-month employees Thursday, August 11, 2022
FSS and 10.5-month employees Thursday, August 18, 2022
Teachers Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Paraprofessionals and 10-month employees Thursday, August 25, 2022
Last Day
Students Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Teachers Friday, June 16, 2023
Paraprofessionals and 10-month employees Friday, June 16, 2023
FSS and 10.5-month employees Monday, June 26, 2023
SDSS and 11-month employees Monday, July 3, 2023
The Pittsburgh Board of Directors approved the 2022-2023 school calendar at their March 2022 legislative meeting. The full downable calendar will be available in June.
Downloadable Calendars
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2021-2022 Parent Friendly Calendar
21-22 Parent Friendly Calendar Final November 19 2021.pdf 342.8 KB (Last Modified on November 19, 2021) -
Calendario escolar 2021-2022 (Spanish)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_SPANISH.pdf 285.52 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021) -
تقويم العام الدراسي 2021-2022 (Arabic)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_ARABIC.pdf 767 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021) -
2021-2022 Kalenda ya Mwaka wa Shule (Swahili)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_SWAHILI.pdf 592.01 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021) -
2021-2022 Kalanderka Sanad Dugsiyeedka (Somali)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_SOMALI.pdf 345 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021) -
Календарь на 2021-2022 учебный год (Russian)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_RUSSIAN.pdf 354.55 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021) -
२०२१-२०२२ स्कूल वर्ष पात्रो (Nepali)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_NEPALI.pdf 751.88 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021) -
2021-2022 学年日程表 (Chinese)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_CHINESE.pdf 751.09 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021) -
2021-2022 o'quv yili taqvimi (UzbeK)
21-22_Parent_Friendly_Calendar_Final_August_2021_UZBEK.pdf 233.82 KB (Last Modified on October 25, 2021)
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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, 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 Monday after Thanksgiving and the Monday after Easter are school-only vacation days.
The draft calendar is reviewed by the Superintendent’s Executive Cabinet, as well as the Executive Committee of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers. Since 2017, school-year calendar options have been placed online to allow students, families, staff and the Pittsburgh community to vote on the option that they prefer. Once voting closes, the calendar is presented to the Board of Directors for approval. 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.