The Cobb County School Calendar for the 2018 to 2019 school year began on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 and ended on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.  The start date was one day later than the previous year, when school started July 31.  The end date was one day earlier than the previous year.

School holidays:

  • First Day of School – August 1, 2018
  • Labor Day – September 3, 2018
  • Fall Break – September 24 – 28, 2018
  • Student Holiday/Staff Workday – November 6, 2018
  • Thanksgiving Holidays – November 19 – 23, 2018
  • Winter Holidays –  December 24, 2018 to January 4, 2019
  • Martin Luther King Jr Day – January 21, 2019
  • Winter Break – February 18 – 22, 2019
  • Spring Break – April 1 – 5, 2019
  • Last Day of School – May 22, 2019

School Calendar Guidelines and Notes:
State law requires that students are in school 180 days or its equivalent. Each year, school districts are given four “emergency days” they can use for a variety of purposes. Many districts have been building those days into their calendars.  In Cobb County, there are 178 days scheduled for students, and 188 days scheduled for teachers.  The first semester includes 91 days and ends prior to Winter Holidays.  Second semester includes 87 days, and ends prior to Memorial Day.  Fall Break begins on the fourth Monday in September.  Winter Break begins on the third Monday in February (Presidents Day).  Spring Break begins on the first Monday in April, providing consistency with other metro school systems.  The school year ends on a Wednesday to provide enough time to schedule graduation ceremonies.

Cobb County School Calendars:
Cobb County School Calendar 2017-2018
Cobb County School Calendar 2018-2019
Cobb County School Calendar 2019-2020
Cobb County School Calendar 2020-2021
Cobb County School Calendar 2021-2022

Marietta City School Calendars:
Marietta City School Calendar 2017-2018
Marietta City School Calendar 2018-2019
Marietta City School Calendar 2019-2020


Related:
Cobb County and Marietta City School Calendars
Cobb County Early Release Schedule
What day does Cobb County go back to school?
Cobb County and Marietta City Schools
List of Federal Holidays
Summer Camps
Private Schools

6 COMMENTS

  1. “School Calendar Guidelines and Notes:
    State law requires that students are in school 180 days or its equivalent. Each year, school districts are given four “emergency days” they can use for a variety of purposes. Many districts have been building those days into their calendars. In Cobb County, there are 178 days scheduled for students, and 188 days scheduled for teachers. The first semester includes 91 days and ends prior to Winter Holidays.”
    I’m a little confused here. It states that it is Georgia law that kids are required to be in school 180 days, but the rest of the paragraph says that only 178 days are open for class. A full two days short of the law. I this traditional math or common core math????

  2. Far too many “breaks” in the middle of the year. Eliminate Fall Break, Monday through Wednesday of Thanksgiving week, February break, and take school into June until about the 10th and don’t start until after Labor day. You give the students a least a semblance of summer, and not put them into busses during the hottest time of the year with no air conditioning, inhaling toxic fumes from the busses themselves. Also, you don’t have to run the air conditioning at the schools as much, again during the hottest time of the year.

    It worked when I was a kid, it can work now. Nothing says you have to be out before Memorial Day, or have as many breaks. If you’re really supposed to be preparing them for the real world, then how many jobs do you think they can get where they take a week off every 6 or 7 weeks? Doesn’t happen.

    • Hi Amanda,
      The 180 day calendar includes four “emergency days” they can use for a variety of purposes. In the 2018-2019 calendar, they used two of these days in the calendar as student holiday/staff workdays.

  3. This calendar is phenomenal! It prevents students, teachers and parents from getting so completely Burned out and it increases retention by not having such a long summer break between class years! You can take family trips throughout the year and see family besides summer. As it was previously stated several inclimate weather days are built into the calendar and since we had such bad weather in 2016/2017 the students went to school during their previously scheduled winter break. I am a Mother that works outside the home and I have to work around the breaks but as we all know school is not daycare. There are more positives than negatives in my opinion!

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