Board of Education Approves 2019-2020 School Calendar

(Courtesy of USD 457)

The Garden City Public Schools Board of Education approved the 2019-2020 school calendar at the April 1^st meeting. A morning session of school will be held for elementary, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth grades and students new to the district on Monday, August 12, 2019. The first day of school for all students is Tuesday, August 13, 2019.

Some key dates on the calendar where there will be no school include:

August 2^nd – 7^th – Orientation for new teachers
August 8^th – Inservice for all teachers
August 9^th – Workday for all teachers
August 12^th – Morning class only for elementary, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth grades and students new to the district, teacher workday in the afternoon
August 13^th – First full day of school for all students
September 2^nd – Labor Day observed no school
September 26^th and 27^th – Teacher inservice
October 18^th – Teacher inservice in the morning and teacher workday in the afternoon
October 24^th and 25^th – Parent Teacher Conferences
November 11^th – Teacher inservice in the morning and new teacher inservice in the afternoon
November 27^th – 29^th – Fall vacation
December 20^th – Teacher inservice in the morning
December 23^rd – January 3^rd – Winter vacation: school is not in session
January 6^th – Teacher workday
January 7^th – School resumes
January 31^st – Teacher inservice in the morning and new teacher inservice in the afternoon
February 21^st – Teacher inservice in the morning and teacher workday in the afternoon
February 27^th and 28^th – Parent Teacher Conferences
March 16^th – 20^th – Spring Break
April 10^th and 13^th – Spring vacation
May 21^st – Last day of school
May 22^nd – Teacher inservice in the morning and teacher workday in the afternoon

The 2019-2020 calendar is available on the Garden City Public Schools website under the Calendar button at www.gckschools.com. A copy of the school calendar can also be picked up at the Educational Support Center, 1205 Fleming Street.