The 2007-08 school year will begin August 6 and end May 25, following the adoption of new school-year calendars by the Coweta County Board of Education Tuesday.
The board adopted “option 1” calendars at their December 13 regular meeting, following several weeks of public input on calendar options through December 1. The Board’s adoption of the calendars sets the school year start times and holidays for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years.

The newly-adopted school calendars are similar to the current calendars used by the Coweta County School System, and include a full-week Thanksgiving Break, a two-week Christmas and New Year’s break, a full week break in late February and a full week of spring break. Both options scheduled 180 days of student instruction, but re-arranged break times and start dates. The option 2 calendar started school one week later, but shortened the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

Superintendent Blake Bass informed the Board Tuesday that there were 725 public comments collected on the two options for next year’s calendar. 545 of them were in favor of option 1. Similarly, 332 of 438 comments on the two options for the 2008-09 calendar were in favor of option 1 version of that calendar.

The major dates of the 2007-08 calendar are:

Monday, August 6 – School Starts
Monday, September 3 – Labor Day
Monday, October 8 – Teacher workday
Monday, November 19-23 – Thanksgiving break
Wednesday, December 19- January 2 – Christmas break
Monday, January 14 – Martin Luther King Day
Monday, February 18-22 – Mid-winter break
Friday, March 14 – Teacher workday
Monday, April 7-11 – Spring break
Friday, May 23 – Last Day of School