Duplin schools schedule Wallace-area meeting, teacher workdays before new year

Duplin County Schools has set a near-term back-to-school schedule for the Wallace area, with a Board of Education meeting on August 7, 2026, followed by three mandatory teacher workdays from August 10 through August 12.

The board meeting is listed for 6 to 7 p.m. on August 7. The teacher workdays are required staff preparation days, placing educators’ school-year planning before the district’s first student attendance day, which is not identified in the available calendar excerpt.

The schedule affects Wallace families, students and school employees connected to schools including Wallace Elementary School and Wallace-Rose Hill High School. The district also lists school-spirit activities beginning in early August, although the available information does not provide specific dates for those events.

What is on the calendar

Wallace Elementary’s official page identifies the school as serving more than 1,100 students in pre-K through eighth grade. Its school calendar also lists the August 10-12 teacher workdays.

The district’s official site identifies Wallace-Rose Hill High School as one of Duplin County Schools’ schools. Together, the listings show that the Wallace-area preparation schedule includes both required staff days and school-related activities before students’ attendance date is confirmed in the available material.

The district’s listed headquarters information gives an address of 120 Municipal Drive, Wallace, NC 28466. The address is administrative information; the approved material does not provide office hours or additional instructions for families or employees.

Separate board-date listing remains unexplained

The district home and calendar page lists the Board of Education meeting for August 7. Wallace Elementary’s page separately lists an August 4 board meeting on its calendar. The available source material does not explain the difference between those two entries or establish whether they refer to separate meetings.

For that reason, the August 7 listing is reported as the districtwide meeting date, not as proof of a board action. The available material does not expose an agenda, minutes or a substantive vote from the August 7 meeting.

The next clearly listed dates are the mandatory teacher workdays beginning August 10 and continuing through August 12. Families should not treat those staff days as the student start date. The early-August spirit activities are listed as part of the preparation schedule, but their dates and the first day of student attendance remain unspecified in the available calendar information.