- Guilford County Schools
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District Calendars for Students and Staff
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Guilford County Schools offers great options and choices for our students, from extended-year schools to high schools located on college campuses. Our range of choices means students may be on different academic calendars. For example, early and middle college students take classes at local universities, so those schools follow the university calendars.
How are GCS calendars created?
North Carolina law lays out specific guidelines for school district calendars. Details include requiring schools to start no earlier than the Monday closest to Aug. 26 and to end no later than the Friday closest to June 11. Click here for more information on the legislation.
In GCS, calendars are created by a calendar committee, comprised of parents, community/faith representatives, teachers, principals and district personnel.Read more about school calendars and inclement weather.
How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting GCS calendars?
A new state law adopted this spring mandates a new start date – August 17 – for all North Carolina public schools for the 2020-2021 academic year. State legislators also mandated that all public schools add five additional instructional days for students while keeping the number of teacher work days the same. As a result, teachers will have five fewer work days this year to prepare their classrooms and participate in professional learning opportunities.
Due to the new state law and increasing operating costs associated with the pandemic, extended-year schools will follow the traditional academic calendar during 2020-2021 as well.
District Calendar
2020-21 School Calendars
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2020-21 Traditional Academic Calendar Revised Nov. 10, 2020
GCS Traditional Academic Calendar 2020-21_Approved 7.28.20_REV 11.10.20.pdf 386.58 KB (Last Modified on November 16, 2020) -
2020-21 Middle and Early Colleges and Academies Revised Nov. 10, 2020
GCS Middle Early Colleges Academies Academic Calendar 2020-21_Approved 7.28.20_REV 11.10.20.pdf 389.37 KB (Last Modified on November 16, 2020) -
2020-21 Early College at Guilford Calendar Revised Nov. 10, 2020
GCS EC at Guilford Academic Calendar 2020-21_Approved 7.28.20_REV 11.10.20.pdf 386.41 KB (Last Modified on November 16, 2020) -
2020-21 Greensboro College Middle College Calendar Revised Nov. 10, 2020
GCS Greensboro College EC Academic Calendar 2020-21_Approved 7.28.20_REV 11.10.20.pdf 386.88 KB (Last Modified on November 16, 2020) -
2020-21 Middle College at UNCG Calendar Revised Nov. 10, 2020
GCS MC at UNCG Academic Calendar 2020-21_Approved 7.28.20_REV 11.10.20.pdf 386.46 KB (Last Modified on November 16, 2020)
Testing Calendars
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2020-2021 Testing Calendar Elementary REVISED 11.30.20
2020-2021 Testing Calendar Elementary REVISED 11.30.20.pdf 238.95 KB (Last Modified on December 7, 2020) -
2020-2021 Testing Calendar Middle REVISED 02.09.21
2020-2021 Middle Testing Calendar - REVISED 02-09-21.pdf 240.31 KB (Last Modified on February 11, 2021) -
2020-2021 Testing Calendar High School REVISED 10.28
2020-2021 Testing Calendar High School REVISED 10.28.pdf 359.34 KB (Last Modified on November 2, 2020) -
2020-2021 Testing Calendar EC at Guilford REVISED 10.28
2020-2021 Testing Calendar EC at Guilford REVISED 10.28.pdf 337.56 KB (Last Modified on November 2, 2020) -
2020-2021 Testing Calendar EMC and Acad REVISED 10.28
2020-2021 Testing Calendar EMC and Acad REVISED 10.28.pdf 361.19 KB (Last Modified on November 2, 2020) -
2020-2021 Testing Calendar GSO College MC REVISED 10.28
2020-2021 Testing Calendar GSO College MC REVISED 10.28.pdf 345.12 KB (Last Modified on November 2, 2020) -
2020-2021 Testing Calendar MC at UNCG REVISED 10.28
2020-2021 Testing Calendar MC at UNCG REVISED 10.28.pdf 351.2 KB (Last Modified on November 2, 2020) -
2020-2021 CTE Mandated State Assessment Testing Windows
2020-2021 Mandated CTE State Assessment Testing Windows.pdf 231.32 KB (Last Modified on December 16, 2020)