The Wake County Public School System is a public school district located in Wake County, North Carolina. With 157,673 students in average daily membership and 194 schools as of the 2021–2024 school year, it is the largest public school district in North Carolina and fourteenth largest in the United States as of 2016
Wake County Public School – WCPSS Calendar 2025
The WCPSS calendar 2024-2025 contain important dates, meeting dates, holidays, etc. In accordance with the NC Calendar Law, if the school district must close schools, the superintendent will update this WCPSS calendar to provide additional days/time by using scheduled teacher workdays, banked hours of instruction, or scheduled vacation days to meet legal requirements.
If all other options are exhausted, holidays may be used for weather makeup. Hours accrued by schools over the required 1025 instructional hours.
Important dates on the WCPSS calendar
Below are the important dates on the Wake County Public School System 2024-2025 Traditional Calendar.
- Teacher Workday is Wednesday, August 17 through Friday, August 26, 2024.
- WCPSS’s First Day of School is Monday, August 29, 2024.
- Early Release Day is Friday, September 2, 2024.
- Labor Day Holiday is Monday, September 5, 2024.
- Teacher Workday is on Monday, September 26, 2024 and Monday, October 10, 2024.
- Thursday, November 3, 2024 is the end of Nine Weeks.
- Teacher Workday is Friday, November 4, 2024.
- WCPSS Calendar Out Day and Teacher Workday are Tuesday, November 8, 2024. No School.
- Early Release Day is Thursday, November 10, 2024.
- Veterans Day Holiday is Friday, November 11, 2024.
- WCPSS Thanksgiving Break 2024 is from Wednesday, November 25 to Friday, November 25, 2024. Classes resume on Monday, November 28, 2024 after the Thanksgiving recess.
- Early Release Day is Monday, December 5, 2024.
- Early Release Day is Wednesday, December 21, 2024
- WCPSS Winter Break 2024 is from Thursday, December 24, 2024 through Monday, January 2, 2025.
- Wake County Public Schools resume on Tuesday, January 3, 2025 after winter break.
- Martin Luther King JR. Day Holiday is Monday, January 16, 2025.
- Thursday, January 26, 2025 is the End of Nine Weeks.
- Teacher Workday is Friday, January 27, 2025.
- Vacation Day is Monday, February 20, 2025.
- Teacher Workday is on Tuesday, March 7, 2025.
- Early Release Day is Friday, March 24, 2025.
- The end of Nine Weeks is Thursday, March 30, 2025.
- Teacher Workday is Friday, March 31, 2025.
- WCPSS Spring Break 2025 is from Monday, April 3 to Friday, April 7, 2025. Classes resume on Tuesday, April 11, 2025.
- Teacher Workday is Friday, April 21, 2025.
- Early Release Day is Tuesday, May 9, 2025.
- Memorial Day Holiday is Monday, May 29, 2025.
- WCPSS’s Last Day of School is Friday, June 9, 2025. It is the End of Nine Weeks.
- Teacher Workdays are Monday, June 12 through Tuesday, June 13, 2025.
For more on the WCPSS calendar, visit the Wake County Public School System 2024-2025 Traditional Calendar page.