Coweta County School System

The Coweta County Board of Education is preparing to adopt new academic-year calendars for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 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 as early as possible.  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.

All proposed calendars at this link maintain 180 days of student instruction, divided into two 90-day semesters, or 89/91 days. The first semester concludes 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 mid-October student holiday (two teacher workdays) 
A Thanksgiving holiday (3 or 5 school days)
A Christmas and New Year's holiday (10 or 8 school days)
A Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. holiday 
A full-week mid-winter holiday in February
A full-week Spring holiday in April
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 is similar to the current school calendar.  The second two differ by shortening some breaks:

Option 1 – Closely follows the calendar used by the school system in recent years.  A full week Thanksgiving Break and a full two-week (10-day) Christmas and New Year's Break is scheduled. School starts Thursday, August 5, in 2021.

Option 2 – Differs by shortening the Thanksgiving Break to three days.  School starts Monday, August 9, in 2021

Option 3 – Differs by shortening the Christmas and New Year's break from 10 to 8 days. School starts Monday, August 9 in 2021.  

Question Title

* 1. Do you prefer, or not prefer, Calendar Option 1 (full week Thanksgiving Break and two-week Christmas/New Year's break)?

Question Title

* 2. Do you prefer, or not prefer, Calendar Option 2 (three-day Thanksgiving Break)?

Question Title

* 3. Do you prefer, or not prefer, Calendar Option 3 (eight-day Christmas/New Year's Break in December)?

Question Title

* 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?

Question Title

* 5. The school system currently 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 school days) break?

Question Title

* 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?

Question Title

* 7. Please leave any other comments regarding your ideas about school calendars in the space below...

( Privacy & Cookie Notice

T