Peabody schools set 2026-27 opening dates and staff schedule
Peabody Public Schools has published its 2026-27 calendar, setting separate opening dates for older students and younger children while laying out the staff preparation scheduled in August.
Students in grades 1 through 12 are scheduled to begin school on Sept. 2, 2026. Pre-K and kindergarten students are scheduled to start one week later, on Sept. 9.
The calendar gives Peabody families the district’s listed dates for the return to school and shows the sequence of meetings, teacher activities, professional development and screening that will take place before or around the opening of classes.
Two student start dates
The main student opening date is Sept. 2 for grades 1-12. The later Sept. 9 start applies to both Pre-K and kindergarten.
Kindergarten screening is scheduled for Sept. 2 and 3. That means the calendar places screening across the same two-day period in which students in grades 1-12 begin their school year, while the kindergarten school-year start remains scheduled for Sept. 9.
For households with children in different grades, the two start dates are the most immediate practical feature of the calendar. Families will need to plan for the Sept. 2 opening for older students and the Sept. 9 opening for Pre-K or kindergarten students, based on the district’s published schedule.
Staff preparation begins in August
The district’s calendar lists new-teacher activities for Aug. 26 and 27. A professional-development day is scheduled for Aug. 31 and is listed as a no-school day.
Those dates come after the calendar’s two August School Committee events. A school-committee retreat is scheduled for Aug. 13, followed by a regular School Committee meeting on Aug. 25 at 7 p.m.
The published schedule therefore establishes a series of district milestones before the first student start date: School Committee events on Aug. 13 and Aug. 25, new-teacher activities on Aug. 26-27, professional development on Aug. 31, and the Sept. 2 opening for grades 1-12.
What the calendar does—and does not—show
The calendar is an operational schedule for the 2026-27 school year. The available district information does not describe it as a policy change or a response to a dispute, and it does not include a comparison with the prior school year.
It also does not provide enrollment totals, staffing numbers or budget impacts. Those details are not part of the published information used for this report, so the calendar alone does not establish how many students or employees will be affected by the listed dates.
The schedule does provide a confirmed planning framework for students, families and educators. It identifies when most students are expected to return, when younger students are scheduled to begin, and when new teachers and existing staff are expected to complete district activities before classes are fully underway.
Next dates on the district calendar
The next listed milestone is the Aug. 13 school-committee retreat. The regular School Committee meeting follows on Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. The calendar does not specify that the retreat will produce a particular decision or change to the school schedule.
After those meetings, new-teacher activities are scheduled for Aug. 26-27, followed by the Aug. 31 professional-development/no-school day. Grades 1-12 are scheduled to start Sept. 2, kindergarten screening is scheduled for Sept. 2-3, and Pre-K and kindergarten are scheduled to begin Sept. 9.
Sources
- Peabody Public Schools
- Peabody Public Schools calendar, Peabody Public Schools
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