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2024/2025 Academic Calendar

Open the 2024/2025 Academic Calendar PDF here (option to save and print). This calendar was approved at the December 14, 2023, BOE Meeting.

First page of the PDF file: 202425ApprovedCalendar

In the 2024-25 Griswold Public Schools Board of Education-approved academic calendar (approved December 14, 2023), students will attend school for 180 days. There are 9 Staff Professional Development Days, where students have the day off.

The first day of school for the 2024-25 year is Thursday, August, 29, 2024. 

The tentative last day of school (without snow days) is Thursday, June 12, 2025. If additional snow days or other school closures occur, make up days will be added in this order: June 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. Should we exceed five snow days by 2/1/25, the Board may consider vacation days/staff development days to be school days.

GHS Exam Half Days will be January 21, 22, 23, and 24, as well as June 6, 9, 10 and 11, 2025. Please keep in mind that June exam dates could change and will be based on the number of days to be made up at the end of the school year.

2024-25 dates of National Holidays, School Vacation days, and Staff Professional Development Days (PD) where students have no school or a shortened day are:

  • Monday, September 2, 2024, Labor Day
  • Friday, October 11, 2024, Staff PD
  • Monday, October 14, 2024, Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day
  • Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Staff PD
  • Shortened days Thursday and Friday, November 7 & 8, 2024, school conferences
  • Monday, November 11, 2024, Veteran's Day
  • Shortened day Wednesday, November 27, 2024, Thanksgiving Break
  • November 28 & 29, 2024, Thanksgiving Break
  • Shortened day, December 20, 2024, Holiday Break
  • Monday, December 23, 2024-Wednesday, January 1, 2025, Holiday Recess
  • Monday, January 20, 2025, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • Friday, February 14, 2025, Staff PD
  • February 17 & 18, 2025, President's Day Recess
  • Shortened days March 5 & 6, 2025, school conferences
  • Friday, March 7, 2025, Staff PD
  • April 14-17, 2025, Spring Break
  • Friday, April 18, 2025, Good Friday
  • Shortened day, Friday, May 23, 2025, Staff PD
  • Monday, May 26, 2025, Memorial Day

Griswold Elementary School regular hours are 8:40 a.m. - 3:10 p.m.

Griswold Middle School, High School and Soule Street Academy hours are 7:30 a.m. - 2:19 p.m.

 

School Closings

Griswold Public Schools distributes alerts about school closures, delays and early dismissals to parents/guardians of students enrolled in GPS (email notifications through Infinite Campus and the School Messenger Notify automated phone service). Families, students, and staff should pay close attention on questionable days for these messages and community broadcasts. 

In the event of inclement weather or other school closure, the following stations will broadcast school closing/delay notices:

Some of these stations have a SMS Text Message subscription service, where you can be notified about school closures via text.

Whenever possible, the Superintendent will choose a DELAYED OPENING rather than a cancellation.

GHS Students from Sending Towns:

For Griswold High School students from sending towns, we advise signing up for School Closure Alerts for your child’s home district and Griswold Public Schools. If your child's home district is closed, your child will not have access to bus transportation and may require alternative transportation to GHS, if it remains open.

Griswold Students Attending other High Schools

For students from Griswold attending other high schools (tech, VOAG, magnet schools, etc.), sign up for School Closure Alerts for your child’s school and Griswold Public Schools. If GPS is closed, your child will not have access to bus transportation, even if their school remains open.