the 3rd monday in august and we get out around june 1st. this year the school made an interesting change that i rather like. because our little private school has a "longer" classroom day (8-3, but only 30 minutes for lunch) even though the kids get out at noon on fridays-we always end up with more days in attendance than is mandated by the state. in past years we've been given a couple of odd mondays off near the end of the school year. this next school year in addition to 2 weeks at christmas and a week in the spring off, the school is taking the entire president's day week off. i like it because it's a great time to plan a "non-peak" vacation with the family. a couple of days will be vacation for the staff, and the other 2 will be in-service days, so the parents don't end up with those oddly schedualed staff "in-service" days that never seem to fall conveniently.