The Oregon-Davis School Board approved school calendars for the next two school years Monday. Superintendent Dr. Don Harman explained the 2018-2019 calendar will mostly be the same as this year’s. “First student day will be August 9,” he said. “Christmas break will be very similar, which will be a split Christmas break. Christmas break will start on Thursday, December 20; students will return on Thursday, January 3. Spring break will be the week of March 25. Scheduled right now, the last student day is May 23.”
He said a change from previous years is that starting in 2019, graduation will be held on a Saturday, rather than a Friday. “After talking with several people, it’s very difficult for people to travel,” he explained. “Travel on a Friday night, this would allow families to get to their destination, and the graduation will be on a Saturday.”
In addition to approving next year’s school calendar, board members also approved a calendar proposal for the 2019-2020 school year.
Harman said the calendar is similar to next year’s, but things could change between now and then. “I believe if we could do that every two years, that just helps parents as they plan graduation parties and things like that,” he said. “So again, this is a tentative schedule but approved as a tentative schedule, just so we can get that out.”
For now, the first day of school is scheduled for August 8, 2019, with the last day on May 22, 2020.
