North Pike trustees approved the district’s calendar fr the next school year this month.
Teachers will have a full week of staff development Aug. 1-5 before students return for the fall semester on Aug. 8.
Students will have holidays Sept. 5 for Labor Day, Oct. 7-10 for fall break, and Nov. 21-25 for Thanksgiving. Then Christmas and New Year holidays last from Dec. 22 through Jan. 6.
In the spring semester, students get holidays on Jan. 16 for Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, March 13-17 for spring break and April 7-10 for Good Friday and Easter. The last day for students, May 25, is a 60% day.
Presidents Day will not be a holiday for North Pike students, though other area districts are taking a holiday that day.
Teachers have staff development on Jan. 9 and May 26.
The fall break and Easter break dates are designated as make-up days in case of closures for weather or other disasters.
Graduation will be May 19.
In other business, the board considered student handbooks and district policies.
Superintendent Dr. Jay Smith said the handbooks were largely the same as this year’s editions, but the grading scales for kindergarten to sixth grade and for seventh through 12th grades were made more consistent with each other.
Smith also presented a slate of policies on grading, retention and promotion and discipline that were updated to be consistent with the contents of the handbooks.
Other policies were presented for review after having been updated to reflect changes in state or federal law.
