FWISD Calendar 2026-2027: Fort Worth ISD Calendar Dates, Holidays, and Academic Schedule

The FWISD Calendar 2026-2027 runs from Monday, August 10, 2026, through Friday, May 21, 2027, covering 175 student instructional days and 187 teacher workdays under the Traditional calendar. The ADSY track extends this to 200 student days.

The Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) 2026-2027 academic year covers three distinct calendar tracks — Traditional, Additional Days School Year (ADSY), and Intersession — each governing when students attend class, when staff reports to campus, and when grading periods close.

The Fort Worth ISD Board of Education approved the base calendar on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, with the district’s student assessment testing calendar updated separately on Monday, March 9, 2026.

What the FWISD Calendar 2026-2027 Covers

The FWISD calendar for 2026-2027 defines instructional days, staff workdays, grading-period boundaries, standardized testing windows, and holiday closures across three parallel scheduling models.

Fort Worth ISD operates these tracks simultaneously because different campuses and student populations require different pacing: some families need a conventional August-to-May schedule, while others are enrolled in campuses using the state’s Additional Days School Year program or an Intersession model built around nine-week terms.

This distinction matters for search purposes because “FWISD calendar” queries frequently conflate all three tracks into one PDF, when in practice the district publishes date variations for each.

A parent checking a report-card date or a break window needs to confirm which track their campus follows before relying on a single date.

FWISD Calendar 2026-2027 Key Dates at a Glance

The table below consolidates every date extracted from the district’s Traditional, ADSY, and Intersession calendar documents.

Dates marked with a single calendar track apply only to that model; unmarked or “All calendars” rows apply across Traditional, ADSY, and Intersession campuses.

Some period-end and report-card entries function as administrative markers rather than instructional days — confirm exact dates against the official board-approved PDF at fwisd.org before finalizing personal plans.

Regarding March 26, 2027: independent calendar calculation confirms Good Friday falls on Friday, March 26, 2027. The FWISD Source calendar documents place STAAR Alternate 2 testing in the same late-March window; districts do not schedule state assessments on the Good Friday holiday itself, so the Alt 2 window most likely spans adjacent instructional days rather than the holiday date.

Regarding June 19, 2027: Juneteenth falls on a Saturday that year. When a fixed-date holiday lands on a weekend, many public employers shift observance to the nearest weekday — typically the preceding Friday.

FWISD’s own designation of June 19 as “observed” suggests the district is treating the calendar date itself as the closure marker rather than shifting it; confirm this against the finalized board calendar.

Traditional, ADSY, and Intersession: Comparing FWISD’s Three Calendar Tracks

FWISD’s three calendar tracks differ in total instructional days, grading-period length, and summer scheduling, not in curriculum content. A campus is assigned to one track; families do not choose a track independently of their assigned school.

Traditional Calendar

The Traditional calendar follows the standard August-to-May structure with six six-week grading periods and no additional summer instructional block. It applies to the majority of FWISD campuses not participating in the state’s Additional Days School Year program.

ADSY (Additional Days School Year) Calendar

The ADSY calendar extends the Traditional base calendar by adding a defined summer instructional session — Monday, May 24, 2027, through Wednesday, June 30, 2027 — on top of the standard 175-day, 187-teacher-day base.

ADSY is a Texas Education Agency (TEA) program governed under Texas Education Code (TEC) §48.0051, which allows campuses to add up to 30 additional instructional days beyond the 175-day base calendar for formula funding purposes.

FWISD’s 25-day ADSY addition, which brings the total to 200 student days and 212 teacher days, sits within that state-allowed range and matches the exact 175+25=200 configuration TEA cites as a qualifying example for ADSY formula funding.

Intersession Calendar

The Intersession calendar restructures the year into four nine-week instructional terms rather than six six-week terms, with grading-period boundaries falling on different dates than the Traditional/ADSY track (for example, Friday, January 15, 2027, and Friday, April 2, 2027, mark nine-week endpoints that have no Traditional/ADSY equivalent on those dates).

This model distributes breaks more evenly across the year instead of concentrating them into one long summer.

Instructional Minutes and Texas Statutory Requirements

FWISD’s Traditional calendar provides 78,750 total instructional minutes (175 days × 450 minutes per day), which exceeds the Texas statutory floor.

Texas Education Code §25.081 requires each school district to operate for at least 75,600 minutes per school year, a standard set by House Bill 2610 in 2015 that replaced the former 180-day requirement with a minutes-based threshold.

One statutory “day” under this framework is defined at a minimum of 420 minutes; FWISD’s 450-minute day exceeds that floor by 30 minutes daily.

The ADSY calendar’s 200 instructional days generate approximately 90,000 instructional minutes (200 × 450), well above both the Traditional total and the state minimum.

This additional time is what qualifies ADSY campuses for the extended-year formula funding administered through the TEA’s Extended Year PEIMS submission process.

One statutory detail worth noting: Texas law prohibits districts from scheduling student instruction on Memorial Day except to make up minutes lost to disasters or extreme weather.

This is a likely factor in why Monday, May 31, 2027 (Memorial Day) appears as a non-instructional day across all three FWISD calendar tracks rather than a make-up day.

Holiday and Break Schedule for FWISD Calendar 2026-2027

FWISD’s 2026-2027 holiday schedule includes eleven distinct closure periods spanning federal holidays, a fall break, winter break, and spring break.

Unlike some neighboring Texas districts, the extracted calendar data does not list a separate Thanksgiving break entry; Veterans Day (Wednesday, November 11, 2026) and STAAR EOC testing (Monday, November 30, 2026) fall on either side of that window, but a standalone Thanksgiving closure date is not confirmed in the source documents and should be checked against the district’s published PDF.

Fall Semester Breaks

Fall Break occurs on a single day, Friday, October 9, 2026, positioned immediately before the Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday on Monday, October 12, 2026, creating a four-day weekend for students and staff.

Winter Break Dates

Winter Break spans Sunday, December 20, 2026, through Friday, January 1, 2027 — a two-week closure connecting the end of the fall semester (Saturday, December 19, 2026) to the resumption of staff workdays on Monday, January 4, 2027.

FWISD Calendar 2026-2027 Spring Break Dates

FWISD’s Spring Break for 2027 runs from Sunday, March 14, through Saturday, March 20, 2027, a full calendar week that includes the surrounding weekends. This is one week later in the calendar than districts observing spring break in early March, and it falls roughly six weeks before the April 5, 2027, STAAR testing date for grades 3–8.

Grading Periods, Report Cards, and STAAR Testing Windows

FWISD issues report cards six times per year under the Traditional and ADSY calendars, aligned to six-week grading periods, versus four times per year under the Intersession model’s nine-week structure.

Report card distribution dates recorded in the calendar are: Saturday, September 26, 2026; Friday, November 6, 2026; Friday, February 19, 2027; and Saturday, June 5, 2027, with track-specific dates of Wednesday, January 13, 2027, and Friday, April 16, 2027 for Traditional/ADSY campuses.

STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) testing occurs at three points in the 2026-2027 calendar:

• STAAR End-of-Course (EOC), fall administration: Monday, November 30 – Saturday, December 5, 2026 (Traditional/ADSY); Tuesday, December 1, 2026 (Intersession)
• STAAR, grades 3–8: Monday, April 5, 2027
• STAAR EOC, summer administration: Sunday, June 13 – Saturday, June 19, 2027

TELPAS (Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System) testing begins Tuesday, February 16, 2027, ahead of the main spring STAAR window.

These dates reflect the district’s testing calendar as updated on Monday, March 9, 2026; the Texas Education Agency sets final statewide STAAR administration windows separately, and district-level dates may shift if TEA revises the state testing calendar after this update.

Staff Days, Professional Development, and Employee Calendar Considerations

FWISD schedules twelve identified staff workdays across the 2026-2027 calendar that fall outside standard instructional days: July 30–31, 2026; August 3–7, 2026; September 26, 2026; October 8, 2026; January 4, 2027; February 15, 2027; and March 31, 2027.

These days account for the twelve-day gap between the 175 student instructional days and 187 teacher workdays under the Traditional calendar, and the corresponding 25-day gap under ADSY.

Employees on FWISD’s pay calendar and campuses following the ADSY model see an extended work year of 212 days rather than 187, directly tied to the same 25-day summer instructional session (Monday, May 24 – Wednesday, June 30, 2027) that extends the student calendar.

Specialized and Campus-Specific Calendars

FWISD operates specialized campuses — including Early College High School (ECHS) programs and alternative schools such as New Heights — that may follow modified calendars distinct from the district-wide Traditional, ADSY, and Intersession tracks.

The source calendar documents reviewed for this guide do not include separate date sets for these specialized campuses; families enrolled in ECHS or similar programs should confirm dates directly with their campus rather than assuming Traditional-calendar dates apply.

For context on why calendar variations exist within FWISD, the district previously extended the 2025-2026 school year by 25 additional days for 15 campuses under the same ADSY framework reflected in the 2026-2027 calendar.

This indicates ADSY participation is assigned at the campus level and can change from year to year based on TEA program enrollment, not applied district-wide.

How to Download the FWISD Calendar 2026-2027 PDF and Sync It to Google Calendar

FWISD publishes its board-approved calendar as a downloadable PDF through the district’s official website rather than through third-party calendar aggregators. To add key dates to a personal digital calendar:

1. Locate the official 2026-2027 calendar PDF on the FWISD district website (fwisd.org), confirming the version reflects the April 28, 2026, board approval.
2. Identify the specific track (Traditional, ADSY, or Intersession) that applies to the relevant campus, since PDF versions differ by track.
3. For Google Calendar, create a new calendar labeled “FWISD 2026-2027” and manually enter recurring closure dates (holidays, breaks) as all-day events, since FWISD does not currently publish a direct .ics subscription feed in the reviewed source data.
4. For Outlook or Apple Calendar, repeat the same manual-entry process, or convert key dates into a shared .ics file using a spreadsheet-to-calendar export tool if managing dates for multiple children or staff members across different campuses.
5. Set reminders 1–2 days in advance of grading-period boundaries and testing windows, since report card and testing dates do not always align with a visible school closure.

What the FWISD Calendar 2026-2027 Does Not Cover

This calendar guide does not include individual campus bell schedules, transportation routes, or after-school program hours, all of which are set at the campus level rather than the district calendar level.

It does not apply to private or charter schools operating within Fort Worth city limits, which set independent academic calendars. It does not reflect emergency weather closures or make-up days added after the April 28, 2026, board approval, since inclement-weather adjustments are announced separately as they occur.

It does not represent finalized state STAAR administration windows, which the Texas Education Agency confirms independently of district calendars and which can shift the district’s internal testing dates.

It also does not cover Early College High School, New Heights, or other specialized-campus calendars, which may differ from the Traditional, ADSY, and Intersession dates listed above.

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