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School Calendar Survey for 2023-24 and 2024-25

Coweta County School System

The Coweta County Board of Education is preparing to adopt new academic-year calendars for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years.  Proposed calendars can be found here.  This link opens a new page, where three calendar options can be found.  Scroll down each calendar page to see both years under each option.

The school system intends to use this survey to adopt school calendars for the next two years, in order to provide families with the ability to schedule vacation plans.  This survey allows participants to express their thoughts about school calendars, and also asks specific questions about the school system's traditional holiday schedule and the length of school breaks.

Both proposed calendars maintain 180 days of student instruction, divided into two 90-day semesters, (or 89/91 days or 88/92 days.  The first semester must conclude before the start of holidays in December to allow for high school course completion and final exams prior to the Christmas and New Year's break.

In addition to the above, the calendars also include:
A Labor Day holiday (a Monday holiday) 
An October student holiday (two teacher workdays)
A Thanksgiving holiday (full week)
A Christmas and New Year's holiday (varying lengths)
A Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. holiday 
A Mid-winter holiday in February (full week)
A Spring holiday in April (full week)
School-year end before Memorial Day

Two Teacher Work Days in March serve as possible inclement weather days in case of school closures that require student make-ups.  They would be used as teacher workdays/student holidays otherwise.

The first calendar option is similar to the current school calendar.  The second option differs by shortening the Christmas and New Year's break slightly:

Option 1 – Closely follows the calendar used by the school system in recent years.  A full week Thanksgiving Break and a Christmas and New Year's Break of at least two weeks (10-plus days) is scheduled. School starts Wednesday, August 2, in 2023.

Option 2 – Differs by shortening the Christmas/New Year's Break.  School starts Monday, August 7, in 2023.

Take the short survey below to provide the school board with your preferences on these options and your thoughts on school calendars...
1.Do you prefer, or not prefer, Calendar Option 1 (with a full full two-week Christmas/New Year's break and a 2022 school-year start on August 2)?
2.Do you prefer, or not prefer, Calendar Option 2 (with a shorter Christmas/New Year's break with a 2022 school-year start on August 7)?
3.The school system currently schedules a two-day fall break (four-day weekend) for students in October, by scheduling a break day on the Monday after a teacher workday.  How important is it to you to maintain this fall-season break?
4.The school system currently schedules a full-week break for Thanksgiving Holidays (as opposed to a two or three-day break).  How important is it to you to maintain a full-week break (five school days) at Thanskgiving?
5.The school system ordinarily schedules a ten-day (two-week) Christmas and New Year's Break in December.  How important is it to you to maintain this full two-week (ten or more school days) break?
6.The school system currently schedules a full-week break in late February (around the week of President's Day) as a mid-winter break.  How important is it to you to maintain this full-week break?
7.Please leave any other comments regarding your ideas about school calendars in the space below...
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