• Bridgeport HS: May 23, 2026

• Robert C. Byrd HS: May 22, 2026

• Lincoln HS: May 23, 2026

• South Harrison HS: May 22, 2026

• United HS: May 26, 2026

• Oct 2, 2025

• Nov 13, 2025

• Jan 14, 2026

• Mar 2, 2026

• Apr 22, 2026

• Jun 8, 2026

• Oct 23, 2025

• Jan 14, 2026

• Mar 24, 2026

• Jun 8, 2026

• Aug 13–17: Teacher workdays – includes prep, meetings, and training (no school for students)

• Aug 18: First day for Grades 1–12

• Aug 25: First day for Kindergarten

• Sept 1: No school – Labor Day

• Sept 2: First day for Pre-K

• Sept 19: Professional Learning Day – students leave early (half day)

• Sept 25: End of the 1st 6 weeks

• Oct 13: No school for students – Faculty Senate and Parent-Teacher Conferences

• Oct 16: End of the 1st 9 weeks

• Nov 6: End of the 2nd 6 weeks

• Nov 11: No school – Veterans Day

• Nov 24: No school – OS Day (might be used as a school day if needed)

• Nov 25–26: No school – Out of Calendar Days

• Nov 27: No school – Thanksgiving

• Nov 28: No school – Out of Calendar Day

• Dec 19: Faculty Senate – 3-hour early dismissal

• Dec 22–24: No school – Out of Calendar Days

• Dec 25: No school – Christmas

• Dec 26–31: No school – Out of Calendar Days

• Jan 1: No school – New Year’s Day

• Jan 2 & 5: No students – Professional Learning Days

• Jan 7: End of 1st Semester

• Jan 19: No school – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

• Feb 16: No school – OS Day (might be used as a school day if needed)

• Feb 23: End of 4th 6 weeks

• Feb 27: Faculty Senate – 3-hour early dismissal

• Mar 17: End of 3rd 9 weeks

• Mar 20: No school – OS Day (might be used as a school day if needed)

• Mar 27: Professional Learning Day – students leave early (half day)

• Mar 30–31: No school – Out of Calendar Days

• Apr 1–3: No school – Out of Calendar Days

• Apr 15: End of 5th 6 weeks

• Apr 24: Faculty Senate – 3-hour early dismissal

• May 12: No school – Election Day

• May 25: No school – Memorial Day

• May 29: Tentative Last Day for Students

• June 1: No students – Professional Learning Day

• June 2: Teachers prepare for end of year – Faculty Senate

• June 3–5: No school – OS Days (might be used as makeup days)

180 Separate days of instruction

The beginning and closing days of the minimum 200-day employment term not to extend past 48 weeks

An instructional day is part of the 180-day term for students. An instructional day is the time allocated within the school day for the teaching and mastery of standards, and does not include lunch, recess, homeroom, class changes, breaks, and other non-instructional activities.

All school calendars must include twenty (20) compensated non-taught days. Non-Instructional Days are days when school is in session, but students are not present, however, some compensated non-taught days include holidays, election days, and outside school environment days when school personnel may not report to work.

Professional learning days are for educators in lieu of instructional days for students. These days or equivalent portions of days are not subject to cancellation or being rescheduled to make-up for instructional days lost. The days must be used as determined by the county board, must be used without students present and must be used exclusively for activities by educators at the school level which are designed to improve instruction. This time is considered instructional time and is not part of the 20 non-taught compensated days.

Paid days to be counted as part of the 20 non-taught compensated days for school personnel. Outside School Environment days can be utilized to make-up days to ensure 180 days of instruction occurs.

This time can be used for the purpose of meeting with parents and students to discuss student academic progress and is counted as part of the 20 non-taught compensated days.

Pursuant to W.Va. Code §18-5A-5, the school calendar must provide to each faculty senate a two-hour block of time for a faculty senate meeting on a day scheduled for the opening of school prior to the beginning of the instructional term and on a day scheduled for the closing of school before the end of the employment term. In addition to the opening and closing of school, faculty senate meetings are to be held during the months of October, December, February, and April, for a total of six two-hour meetings. Faculty senate meetings can be held on days set aside for late arrivals and early dismissals, or part of a non-instructional day. The portion of the non-instructional day scheduled for the faculty senate meeting shall be considered as part of the purpose for which the non-instructional day is scheduled.

Faculty senates may also schedule a meeting during an instructional day if sufficient equivalent instructional time has been set aside by a school; however, every school in the district must have set aside sufficient time for all faculty senates in the district to meet in this manner. A faculty senate may also meet  for an unlimited block of time during a non-instructional day to discuss and plan strategies to improve student instruction and to conduct other faculty senate business. A faculty senate may elect to schedule a meeting on an instructional day outside of the instructional time for students, and take compensatory time off on the non-instructional day that is provided by the county board for its meeting, as long as the meeting takes place prior to the day that is scheduled in the school calendar. If a non-instructional day that is originally scheduled for faculty senates to meet is canceled due to inclement weather, the county board may elect, but is not required, to reschedule the non-instructional day in order for the faculty senates to meet.