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Kilgore ISD board adopts 2025——926 academic calendar with August start and pre-Memorial Day finish
Summary
After committee work and surveys, trustees approved a 2025–26 calendar that starts in early August, ends before Memorial Day, preserves a 465-minute instructional day and adds two summer equivalency days for staff development; vote was unanimous.
The Kilgore ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously, 7-0, to adopt a proposed 2025–26 academic calendar that keeps the district's 465-minute instructional day, starts in early August and ends before Memorial Day.
Assistant Superintendent Miss Cox presented the recommended calendar after a districtwide survey, campus committees and review by the district education improvement committee (DEIC). The recommended calendar retains seven staff planning days before students begin, preserves daily instructional minutes at 465, and reduces student days by one compared with the current year. The draft removes a September district holiday, reduces the number of early-release days and eliminates the early-release day prior to Thanksgiving, while embedding two summer equivalency/exchange professional days for teachers.
Key calendar elements discussed and adopted by the board include an early-August student start (August 13 in the presented draft), removal of an embedded September district holiday, and ending the school year approximately one week earlier than the current year so student last day would fall before Memorial Day. The calendar preserves staff planning days after the winter break and keeps embedded graded-period planning days. Miss Cox said committees and parent representatives preferred the one-weekearlier end to clustered embedded days because it aids childcare and community planning.
Board discussion noted high satisfaction rates from staff (98.3%) and parents/community (93.9%) in committee survey feedback. Trustees said the calendar balanced instruction time, family planning needs and staff professional development. A motion to approve the calendar carried 7-0.
Why it matters: calendar timing affects families, childcare providers and district testing and staffing schedules. District officials said they reviewed testing and course scheduling implications and concluded the calendar change is manageable for state testing and campus operations.
The adopted calendar will be posted with full dates and timelines; district staff said they will distribute final calendars to campuses and post digital copies for parents.
