Released by GCS.
Greenville County Schools has released the 2021-22 student calendar. Students will start the new school year on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. The last day of school will be Friday, June 3, 2022. In accordance with state law, the calendar includes 180 scheduled instructional days and ten professional development/teacher workdays. Under existing state law, students may not start school prior to the third Monday in August.
Because Greenville County Schools is an approved eLearning district, the district is not required to build in makeup days for inclement weather. GCS will automatically operate on Attendance Plan 0 (eLearning) if school buildings are closed on a regular attendance day. The former makeup days have been added to the calendar to create additional long weekends for students, including a long weekend around the Easter holiday, April 15-18, 2022.
The last day of school before Winter Break will be Friday, December 17 and the first day back will be Monday, January 3. Spring Break is slated for March 21-25, 2022. The day before Winter Break (December 17) and the last two days of school (June 2-3) will be half-days for students.
Other holidays include Labor Day (September 6), Thanksgiving Break (November 24-26), Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 17), Presidents’ Day (February 21), Memorial Day (May 30). In addition, students are out of school on four professional development/teacher workdays (October 18-19, January 14, and March 18).
High school graduations are scheduled for May 31 and June 1-3, 2022.
The Superintendent determines the school calendar after receiving recommendations from the Calendar Committee, which receives input from parent groups and school faculties. The recommendations are also based on State requirements and factors such as required testing dates set by the State Department of Education. The Calendar Committee is comprised of parents, teachers, principals, and staff.
Links to 2021-2022 calendars:
