Homeschool Year Planner: Find Your Last Day of School

Some families teach Monday to Thursday and keep Fridays for co-op, field trips or catching up. With the same August 17 start, no breaks and a 180-day target, four days a week takes 180 ÷ 4 = 45 weeks, and the last day is Thursday, June 24, 2027. Add the three breaks from the first example and the last day moves to Thursday, July 22, 2027, so a four-day week leaves less room for time off before summer.

Switch Plan by to hours if your target is a number of hours. The planner divides the hours by the hours you teach on a typical school day to get the days needed. At 4.5 hours a day, 900 hours is exactly 200 days, and from an August 17 start on a Monday to Friday week with no breaks, day 200 is Friday, May 21, 2027.

When the hours don't divide evenly, the planner rounds up, because a part day still has to be taught. At 4 hours a day, 990 hours is 247.5 days, so the plan needs 248.

Tick Skip US federal holidays and the planner skips the eleven holidays set by 5 U.S.C. § 6103: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Washington's Birthday (Presidents' Day), Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The dates are worked out by rule for every year, such as the first Monday in September for Labor Day or the fourth Thursday in November for Thanksgiving, so a plan that starts in any year gets the right days.

A holiday on a weekend moves to a weekday, following the practice OPM describes for federal employees: "If a holiday falls on a Saturday, for most Federal employees, the preceding Friday will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes." A Sunday holiday moves to the Monday after. In the 2026–27 year, that's why Independence Day is observed on Friday, July 3, 2026, and Juneteenth on Friday, June 18, 2027. The full list for the year is in the table below the planner.

The day after Thanksgiving isn't a federal holiday, so the planner won't skip it. If you take it off, add it as a one-day break, or make your Thanksgiving break cover the whole week as in the example above.

The planner doesn't know your state's rule unless you pick one from Use a state's figure, which fills in the target for you. New York asks for 180 days and also sets hours: 900 a year for grades 1 to 6 and 990 for grades 7 to 12. Pennsylvania accepts either 180 days or the same hour figures, with 900 hours covering kindergarten through grade 6. North Carolina has no day count; its law asks for a regular schedule during at least nine calendar months of the year. Florida and Texas set no minimum number of days or hours for home education. Colorado fills in a 172-day target and leaves Plan by on days: its law states a daily average rather than a separate annual hours figure, so there's no hours target to offer instead. Each state's guide covers the rest of its rules, from notice to testing.

If your state counts hours, plan by hours; if it counts days, plan by days. Once the year is underway, the attendance tracker logs what you actually taught and checks it against the same figures.

Your plan is saved in this browser only and never sent anywhere. Export backup (JSON) keeps a copy, and Start from the example puts the 180-day plan above back in place.