Farmington Public Schools opens the 2026-27 school year on Monday, August 31. Note the fine print before the first bus rolls: August 31 and September 1 are district-wide professional development days with early dismissal, which means Farmington High School lets out at 12:08 p.m., Irving A. Robbins Middle School at 12:15 p.m., and the elementary schools at 1:20 p.m.
Every date families plan a year around comes from the district's official 2026-27 calendar, last updated in March, and the Mercury has now published the whole thing in one place: the Farmington Public Schools 2026-27 calendar page, which will stay up all year.
The shape of the year, briefly. Teachers report first: new-teacher orientation runs August 24 and 25, followed by teacher professional development days August 26 through 28, with no school. Students start August 31. The fall's no-school days are Labor Day (September 7), Yom Kippur (September 21), the day the district calendar lists as both Indigenous Peoples' Day and Italian American Heritage Day (October 12), and teacher PD days on October 13 and November 3. Thanksgiving recess falls on November 26 and 27, with an early dismissal on November 25.
Winter recess runs December 24 through January 1. The spring side of the calendar holds Martin Luther King Day (January 18), Presidents' Day recess (February 15 and 16), Eid al-Fitr (March 9), Good Friday (March 26), and spring recess April 12 through 16, before Memorial Day (May 31) closes out the no-school list.
The last day of school for students is June 11, and the district labels it what it is: tentative. The calendar's own fine print says the schedule can change with state or local regulations, and any unexpected closings get made up after the scheduled last day. June 11, in other words, is a plan, and Connecticut winters have been known to have opinions about plans.
Family conferences land December 2 through 4 for grades K-8, December 3 and 4 for grades 9-12, and March 15 through 17 for grades K-6.
The calendar's monthly day counts total 180 student days, spread from a one-day August to a nine-day June. The calendar page carries the full month-by-month table, school hours with early-dismissal times, a downloadable PDF of the official district calendar, and contact information for all eight school offices, from Superintendent Jess Giannini's office on down. 📚
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Jack Beckett has read the entire 2026-27 school calendar, including the asterisks, and can report that the district offices take December 25 seriously. He is on his second coffee. School starts August 31. ☕
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