Central Calendar

2024–25 Central Calendar  

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• View and print the PDF of the 2024-25 NYCPS Calendar Memo.
• Please see the bottom of this page for the 2023-24 and the 2022-23 calendars.

DAYS WHEN OFFICES ARE CLOSED 

All Central offices of the New York City Department of Education (DOE) shall be closed on the dates listed below. Except for "prevailing wage rate employees" subject to Section 220 of the New York State Labor Law, any absence of per annum, per diem, hourly non-competitive employees and monthly salaried employees of the administrative staff and Central pedagogical personnel scheduled to work on these days shall be excused without loss of pay and without charge to annual leave. 

2024 

• Independence Day: Thursday, July 4  
• Labor Day: Monday, September 2
• Italian Heritage Day / Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Monday, October 14
• Veterans Day: Monday, November 11 
• Thanksgiving Holiday: Thursday–Friday, November 28–29
• Christmas Holiday: Tuesday–Wednesday, December 24–25

2025 

• New Year’s Holiday: Tuesday and Wednesday December 31 and January 1
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Monday, January 20 
• Washington’s Birthday/Presidents Day: Monday, February 17 
• Memorial Day: Monday, May 26 
• Juneteenth: Thursday, June 19 

NOTES 

All Central offices of the DOE will be open with limited staff on all dates indicated in this section, which shall be paid holidays for certain employees as described below. 

Additional Paid Holidays 

The days listed below are paid holidays for employees except for "prevailing wage rate employees" subject to

Section 220 of the New York State Labor Law and managerial/confidential employees i.e., 

• Pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA), 
• Administrative managers, and  
• Employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF). 
  

When they fall on weekdays, these holidays are scheduled as regular workdays for these specifically identified groups of employees. 

• Rosh Hashana: Thursday and Friday, October 3 and October 4
• Diwali: Friday, November 1
• Lunar New Year: Wednesday, January 29
• Eid al-Fitr: Monday, March 31
• Second Day of Passover: Monday, April 14
• Good Friday: Friday, April 18
• Eid al-Adha: Thursday, June 5

Note that in 2024-25, two holidays fall on weekends. They are Yom Kippur (Saturday, October 12), and the first day of Passover (Sunday, April 13).

Election Day (Tuesday, November 5) 

All schools and all other DOE facilities will be open on November 5, 2024 (Election Day). But for the exceptions noted in the next paragraph, employees working on Election Day in Borough/Citywide Offices and Central offices are entitled to be excused on another day, without charge to annual leave. The first personal business or annual leave (vacation) absence that an employee takes after Election Day will automatically be recorded as a “floating holiday.” However, that day off must be taken on or before Sunday, August 31, 2025 and must be selected in a manner that ensures the efficient operation of the office. Where feasible, employees may use the traditional date for Election Day as their “floating holiday.”  

Election Day is generally a holiday for "prevailing wage rate” employees (unless otherwise modified in their Consent Determination). Election Day is a regularly scheduled workday for administrative employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement hired after June 30, 2004, and for the following managerial/confidential employees hired after December 31, 2004: pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA), all administrative managers, and employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF). In accordance with the collective bargaining agreement, Education Administrators represented by CSA no longer receive the Election Day floating holiday regardless of their hiring date. 

Lincoln’s Birthday, observed (Friday, February 21) 

In 2025, Lincoln’s Birthday falls on Wednesday, February 12. However, for all employees other than managerial/confidential employees (i.e., administrative employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement), Lincoln’s Birthday is observed as a paid holiday on Friday, February 21. All Central offices of the DOE will be open on February 21 and limited staff will be accessible. 

Managerial/confidential employees hired on or before June 30, 2004 and working on Lincoln’s Birthday Observed in Central offices are entitled to be excused on another day, without charge to annual leave. Managerial/confidential employees are defined as: pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA), all administrative managers, and employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF).  

The first available personal business or annual leave (vacation) absence that a managerial/confidential employee hired on or before June 30, 2004, takes after Lincoln’s Birthday Observed (Friday, February 21) will automatically be recorded as a “floating holiday.” However, that day off must be taken on or before Sunday, August 31, 2025, and must be selected in a manner that ensures the efficient operation of the office. Where feasible, employees may use the traditional date for Lincoln’s Birthday Observed as their “floating holiday”. 

Lincoln’s Birthday Observed is a regularly scheduled workday for the following managerial/confidential employees hired after June 30, 2004: pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA), all administrative managers, and employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF). 

Anniversary Day (Thursday, June 5) 

In 2025, Anniversary Day falls on the same day as Eid al-Adha.  For employees other than managerial/confidential employees (i.e., administrative employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement), Thursday, June 5, 2025 is a paid holiday.  All Central offices of the DOE will be open on June 5 and limited staff will be accessible.  

Anniversary Day is normally a regular workday for all staff, except for DC37 school-based, Local 372 represented employees in Brooklyn and Queens. 

2023–24 Central Calendar

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• View the School Year 2023–24 Calendar for Staff.
• Please see the bottom of this page for the 2022–23 calendar.

Days When Offices Are Closed

All Central offices of the New York City Department of Education (DOE) shall be closed on the dates listed below. Except for "prevailing wage rate employees" subject to Section 220 of the New York State Labor Law, any absence of per annum, per diem, hourly non-competitive employees and monthly salaried employees of the administrative staff and Central pedagogical personnel scheduled to work on these days shall be excused without loss of pay and without charge to annual leave.

2023

• Independence Day: Tuesday, July 4
• Labor Day: Monday, September 4
• Italian Heritage Day / Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Monday, October 9
• Thanksgiving Holiday: Thursday–Friday, November 23–24
• Christmas Day: Monday, December 25

2024

• New Year’s Day: Monday, January 1
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Monday, January 15
• Washington’s Birthday/Presidents Day: Monday, February 19
• Easter Monday, Monday, April 1 (2024 only)
• Memorial Day: Monday, May 27
• Juneteenth: Wednesday, June 19

Notes

All Central offices of the DOE will be open with limited staff on all dates indicated in this section, which shall be paid holidays for certain employees as described below.

Additional Paid Holidays

The days listed below are paid holidays for employees except for "prevailing wage rate employees" subject to Section 220 of the New York State Labor Law and managerial/confidential employees i.e.,

• Pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA),
• Administrative managers, and 
• Employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF).

When they fall on weekdays, these holidays are scheduled as regular workdays for these specifically identified groups of employees.

• Yom Kippur: Monday, September 25
• Good Friday: Friday, March 29
• Eid al-Fitr: Wednesday, April 10
• First Day of Passover: Tuesday, April 23
• Second Day of Passover: Wednesday, April 24
• Eid al-Adha: Monday, June 17

Note that in 2023-24, four holidays fall on weekends. They are Rosh Hashana (Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17), Veterans Day (Saturday, November 11, 2023), Diwali (Sunday, November 12, 2023) and Lunar New Year (Saturday, February 10, 2024).

Election Day (Tuesday, November 7)

All schools and all other DOE facilities will be open on November 7, 2023 (Election Day). But for the exceptions noted in the next paragraph, employees working on Election Day in Borough/Citywide Offices and Central offices are entitled to be excused on another day, without charge to annual leave. The first personal business or annual leave (vacation) absence that an employee takes after Election Day will automatically be recorded as a “floating holiday.” However, that day off must be taken on or before Saturday, August 31, 2024 and must be selected in a manner that ensures the efficient operation of the office. Where feasible, employees may use the traditional date for Election Day as their “floating holiday.”

Election Day is generally a holiday for "prevailing wage rate” employees (unless otherwise modified in their Consent Determination). Election Day is a regularly scheduled workday for administrative employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement hired after June 30, 2004, and for the following managerial/confidential employees hired after December 31, 2004: pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA), all administrative managers, and employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF). In accordance with the collective bargaining agreement, Education Administrators represented by CSA no longer receive the Election Day floating holiday regardless of their hiring date.

Lincoln’s Birthday, observed (Friday, February 23)

In 2024, Lincoln’s Birthday falls on Monday, February 12. However, for all employees other than managerial/confidential employees (i.e., administrative employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement), Lincoln’s Birthday is observed as a paid holiday on Friday, February 23. All Central offices of the DOE will be open on February 23 and limited staff will be accessible.

Managerial/confidential employees hired on or before June 30, 2004 and working on Lincoln’s Birthday Observed in Central offices are entitled to be excused on another day, without charge to annual leave. Managerial/confidential employees are defined as: pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA), all administrative managers, and employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF).

The first available personal business or annual leave (vacation) absence that a managerial/confidential employee hired on or before June 30, 2004, takes after Lincoln’s Birthday Observed (Friday, February 23) will automatically be recorded as a “floating holiday.” However, that day off must be taken on or before Saturday, August 31, 2024, and must be selected in a manner that ensures the efficient operation of the office. Where feasible, employees may use the traditional date for Lincoln’s Birthday Observed as their “floating holiday”.

Lincoln’s Birthday Observed is a regularly scheduled workday for the following managerial/confidential employees hired after June 30, 2004: pedagogic managers not covered by a collective bargaining agreement (even when receiving benefits through the CSA), all administrative managers, and employees in Original Jurisdiction (OJ) titles receiving benefits through the City of New York Management Benefits Fund (MBF).

Anniversary Day (Thursday, June 6)

Thursday, June 6 (Anniversary Day) is a regular workday for all staff, except for DC37 school-based, Local 372 represented employees in Brooklyn and Queens.

Note On Veteran's Day

In accordance with longstanding past policy and practice, Friday, November 10, 2023 is scheduled as a regular workday for all employees. The most recent precedents for the Friday, November 10, 2023 workday are: 2000, 2006, and 2017. Whenever Veterans Day was celebrated on Saturday November 11, Friday November 10 was scheduled as a regular workday.