| Event | Date(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| First Day of School | August 11, 2027 (Wed) | School Opens |
| Labor Day | September 6, 2027 (Mon) | No School |
| Thanksgiving Break | November 22, 2027 - November 26, 2027 | No School |
| Winter Break | December 20, 2027 - December 31, 2027 | No School |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | January 17, 2028 (Mon) | No School |
| Presidents' Day | February 21, 2028 (Mon) | No School |
| Spring Break | March 13, 2028 - March 17, 2028 | No School |
| Last Day of School | May 24, 2028 (Wed) | School Closes |
Complete month-by-month calendar for Orange County Public Schools. Every day is color-coded so you can see school days, holidays, and breaks at a glance.
Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) does not yet have a final 2027-2028 calendar in this data set. This projected version keeps only the high-confidence family planning dates: a projected August 11, 2027 start, the full Thanksgiving week, a two-week Christmas/New Year winter break, a mid-March spring break, and a projected May 24, 2028 student finish.
OCPS has a distinctive Central Florida calendar pattern: the district tends to start early and finish before the Memorial Day weekend rhythm when possible, a structure that fits the Orlando region's tourism and hospitality economy. No recurring county fair, festival, rodeo, or university-homecoming closure was strong enough in the recent OCPS calendars to place on the projected student calendar.
Staff-only workdays, generic student holidays, professional days, marking-period labels, early dismissals, and severe-weather makeup priorities are intentionally left out until OCPS publishes a draft or official 2027-2028 source.
County context: Orange County Public Schools serves families across Orange County, where the district calendar is the practical baseline for school-year planning. For 2027-2028, students are scheduled to start on August 11, 2027 and finish on May 24, 2028. The main family planning blocks are Thanksgiving Break (November 22, 2027 - November 26, 2027), Winter Break (December 20, 2027 - December 31, 2027), and Spring Break (March 13, 2028 - March 17, 2028). Parents can use this view for travel windows, shared-custody exchanges, childcare coverage, after-school activities, and comparing district days off with work schedules.
What to watch: The most important local differences from a generic statewide calendar are the district's own break placement, board-approved student holidays, and any campus-facing schedule notes published by the district. No recurring early-release entry is listed in the student-facing data used for this page. Teacher planning days and student holidays are separated from regular school days whenever the official source identifies them. Weather or makeup-day language is preserved in the page notes when the district publishes it, which matters for hurricane-season planning and emergency childcare coverage.
Official-source handling: Projected from Orange County Public Schools' official 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 calendars, fixed federal holidays, and Florida's August 10 start-date rule. This is not an official 2027-2028 OCPS calendar. We manually review first-party district material, screen it for student-facing dates, and organize it into key dates, calendar grids, downloadable files, and printable summaries. Because this page is marked projected, it should be used for early planning until the district releases a final adopted calendar. User-submitted corrections are checked against official district sources before this page is updated.
No. This is a projected planning calendar. Orange County Public Schools has not published a final 2027-2028 calendar in this data set.
OCPS used August 11 as the student start date in both the official 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 calendars. Since August 11, 2027 falls on a Wednesday and remains within Florida's start-date rule, it is the strongest local-pattern estimate.
Spring Break is projected for March 13-17, 2028, matching OCPS's recent mid-March spring break pattern.
OCPS does not show a stable local festival or fair closure in the recent official calendars. Its most useful local pattern is the early-start, early-finish structure connected to the Orlando area's large tourism and hospitality economy.
Those dates are not being guessed. OCPS publishes severe-weather makeup priorities and staff-only calendar days in official calendars, but they should wait for a district draft or final 2027-2028 source.
Data Source: Projected from Orange County Public Schools' official 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 calendars, fixed federal holidays, and Florida's August 10 start-date rule. This is not an official 2027-2028 OCPS calendar.
Official Source: Visit the Orange County official calendar source.
How we adapt the calendar: FL School Calendar converts district calendar documents into a parent-friendly view focused on student attendance, holidays, breaks, teacher planning days, early releases, downloadable calendar files, and printable summaries.
Disclaimer: This website is not affiliated with Orange County Public Schools or the Florida Department of Education. While we strive for accuracy, always verify important dates with the official district website before making travel, childcare, work, or attendance plans.
Last updated: May 28, 2026