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Oak Grove R‑VI board adopts 2025–26 calendar: 169 student days, AMI virtual days and adjusted elementary early releases
Summary
Trustees approved a 2025–26 school calendar that meets Senate Bill 727’s 169‑day requirement while limiting extra staff days by converting some full professional development days into student‑contact half days. The calendar adds makeup and AMI virtual days and sets start and end dates.
The Oak Grove R‑VI Board approved the district’s 2025–26 school calendar, which adds days to meet new state requirements while keeping staff‑work increases limited by restructuring professional‑development days.
The district presented a calendar that meets the 169‑day requirement cited in Senate Bill 727 while still complying with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s hourly requirement (1,044 hours). To avoid adding eight full staff workdays, the superintendent advisory committee recommended splitting monthly full‑day professional‑development sessions into two half‑days; students would attend half‑day sessions on those days and the time would count as student contact days. The district said that change yields the eight additional student days while increasing only three staff workdays.
Key dates and makeup provisions: the calendar schedules school to start Aug. 20, provides two full weeks at Christmas and a one‑week spring break, and lists the last day of school as May 15. Thanksgiving will include a Monday day and a half day on Tuesday, and Good Friday will be a half‑day with the following Monday off. The plan also incorporates up to six AMI (alternative methods of instruction) virtual days — equivalent to 36 hours of instructional time — that count for attendance and may be used for inclement‑weather makeup; the calendar also shows six makeup days, some of which would be tacked on in May if needed.
Why it matters: state legislation requiring 169 student days for districts in Jackson County affects staffing and budgets. District leaders told the board the additional days affect payroll and transportation costs; the calendar aims to meet the statutory requirement without proportionally increasing staff pay or adding unsustainable costs.
Board action: a motion and second were recorded and the calendar passed on a recorded board vote.
Implementation and communication: district representatives said the superintendent advisory committee developed several options, staff voted on samples, and the presented calendar received roughly 64.65% staff support in the internal vote. Administrators plan to produce an AMI implementation plan (assignments, packet distribution and online expectations), communicate procedures to families, and finalize operational details such as scheduling for middle and high school periods to avoid excessive cumulative student workloads on AMI days.
Outlook: the board directed staff to finalize the AMI procedures and communicate the calendar widely to staff and families so that parents and teachers understand how virtual makeup days will be assigned and how they will be counted for attendance.
