Find school holidays and FAST dates for all 67 Districts (2025–2027) — all in one place.
Florida has 67 county-based school districts — one per county. Browse by region below.
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Florida's hurricane season runs June–November. All districts include designated makeup days in their calendars. Schools may close for severe weather, with instructional time recovered through built-in flex days.
Florida's FAST (Florida Assessment of Student Thinking) replaces the old FSA. Testing occurs in three windows: early fall (progress monitoring), mid-year, and spring (accountability).
Florida law requires a minimum of 180 instructional days per school year. Each of the 67 county school districts sets its own specific calendar within this mandate.
Florida is home to 67 county-based school districts, each setting its own academic calendar within the state's mandated 180-day minimum. Unlike states with hundreds of independent districts, Florida's clean one-county-one-district structure makes it straightforward to find your school's calendar — simply identify your county.
However, calendars do vary significantly between counties. For instance, Orange County (Orlando) typically starts school in early August and finishes by mid-May, while Miami-Dade doesn't begin until mid-August and runs through early June. Some districts like Hillsborough include unique local holidays such as Florida State Fair Day and Strawberry Festival Day.
We build each calendar from official school district materials whenever they are available, including board-approved academic calendars, district PDFs, and public calendar pages. When a future school year has not yet been officially adopted, we label the page as projected and use prior district patterns only for early planning.
Dates are manually reviewed before publication so families can compare first day, last day, breaks, holidays, early release days, and makeup-day notes in one place. If a parent, staff member, or district visitor finds a newer official calendar or a correction, we review the submitted source and update the affected pages after verification.
Our goal is to aggregate the most popular Florida school district calendars into an intuitive, mobile-friendly platform with printable PDFs, Google/Apple Calendar subscriptions (.ics), and localized FAQs — all free and ad-supported.
It depends on the county. Orange County starts earliest on August 6, 2025, while Broward, Hillsborough, and Palm Beach start on August 11, and Miami-Dade on August 14. Each of Florida's 67 county school districts sets its own start date.
No. Each of Florida's 67 county school districts establishes its own academic calendar. While all must meet the state's 180-day instructional requirement, start dates, break schedules, and holidays can vary significantly between counties. Charter and private schools also set their own independent calendars.
Florida school districts build designated hurricane makeup days into their calendars. If schools close due to tropical storms or hurricanes, these pre-designated days (often teacher planning days or holidays) are converted to instructional days. If too many days are lost, the district may extend the school year. Broward County, for example, builds in up to five severe weather makeup days.
Spring Break dates vary by county for the 2026-2027 school year: Broward, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach share the week of March 22–26, 2027. Orange County observes March 15–19, 2027. Always check your specific county's calendar for exact dates.
FAST (Florida Assessment of Student Thinking) is Florida's statewide student assessment program that replaced the former FSA. It is administered in three testing windows throughout the school year: early fall (progress monitoring), mid-year (progress monitoring), and spring (accountability/end-of-year). All public school students in grades 3–10 participate.
For school years where the official calendar has not yet been adopted by the county School Board, we provide expert projections based on multi-year historical scheduling patterns, federal holiday dates, and each district's established traditions. Once an official calendar is published, our data is immediately updated to reflect the confirmed dates.