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Liberty Hill ISD board approves 2025'26 hybrid calendar combining 4-day student weeks and targeted 5-day weeks
Summary
After extended public and staff discussion, the board approved a hybrid 2025'26 calendar designed to give teachers additional planning time while retaining key testing and activity weeks for students; board asked administration to return with final Friday schedules and implementation details before April contract dates.
Trustees for Liberty Hill ISD on Feb. 18 approved a hybrid 2025'26 school calendar that combines periodic 4-day student weeks with 5-day staff schedules, a district effort intended to give teachers protected planning time while preserving testing windows and end-of-year activities.
The plan approved by the board was presented by a district staff member who described it as a middle ground between calendars the district previously surveyed. The calendar shown to trustees called for 160 student instructional days and 187 staff work days, with instruction starting Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, and the school year extending through the week after Memorial Day in 2026 (staff noted the proposal ends the school year after Memorial Day with graduation scheduled the next day). The hybrid plan adds roughly 10 minutes to the daily schedule compared with the current year (the district described the added minutes as targeted to intervention/enrichment/flex time)…
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