Sorry kids, we know you haven’t quite started your summer holidays yet, but the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport in the Valencia region has proposed that Monday 11 September 2023, be the first day of class for Infant, Primary, ESO, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training students, both in Basic FP (FPB) and in middle and higher grades.
The Infant, Primary, ESO, Baccalaureate, FP classes, and also those of the official language schools (EOI), will all end at the same time. Thus, the last day of class of the next academic year 2023-2024 is proposed to be Friday 21 June 2024. Likewise, the students of the basic qualification training programs (PFCB) and the second chance FPB will also finish classes on June 21.
Both in the case of the PFCB and the second chance FPB, classes for the 2023-2024 academic year will begin on Wednesday 13 September 2023. With regard to the EOI, classes will start on Monday 25 September.
In training for adults (FPA), the course will start on Monday 18 September 2023, and will end on 19 June 2024.
In artistic teaching of music and dance, elementary and professional; professional teaching of plastic arts and design, and special regime sports teaching, classes will begin on Wednesday 20 September and end on Wednesday 19 June.
Holidays
The Christmas holidays, for teachers and students, are established from Friday 22 December 2023 to Friday 5 January 2024, both days included, with which the course will resume on Monday 8 January. The Easter holidays will go from Thursday 28 March to Monday 8 April, also both included.
The next academic year 2023-2024 will have the following regional holidays: Monday 9 October, Thursday 12 October, Wednesday 1 November, Wednesday 6 December, and Friday 8 December, and also Wednesday 1 May.
It must be borne in mind that this is the common school calendar for the entire territory in the autonomous area, from which each council establishes three local non-school days, as well as local holidays, in the event that any of the two days that touch each municipality is held on a school day.
Therefore, once the school calendar for the 2023-2024 academic year has been published in the DOGV, the municipal school councils (CEM), which are the highest participatory body of the educational community of a municipality, or the town halls, with regard to small towns that do not have CEM, will finish defining the calendar with holidays and local non-school days in each town or city.
In addition, the CEMs can request a fourth non-school day of a recoverable nature, but in the latter case it is a modification of the school calendar that must be authorized by the General Directorate of Teaching Centres. This recoverable class day, if requested, is usually established, as a general rule, by extending the end of the course by one more day or by shortening the Easter holidays by one day.
