Hoover Board of Education approves 2025-26 school calendar

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The Hoover Board of Education this week approved a calendar for the 2025-26 school year with a couple of alterations designed to help teachers.

Recently, teachers have been given the opportunity to take a couple of “flex days” off in the days before school started as credit for professional development done during the summer, said Kelli Lane, the district’s new chief technology officer who was part of this year’s calendar committee.

For the 2025-26 school year, those flex days are being moved to October around Columbus Day to give teachers an opportunity for a fall break, Lane said. The new flex days will be Oct. 10 and Oct. 13 and will be followed by a teacher workday on Oct. 14.

Another change was to convert an e-learning day in April into a teacher workday, which will be on April 10.

Beyond that, the 2025-26 calendar is very similar to what it has been the previous four academic years, Lane said.

Here is the complete 2025-26 school calendar:

  • Aug. 4 — Teacher workday/institute
  • Aug. 5 — School professional development day
  • Aug. 6. — Teacher workday
  • Aug. 7 — First day of school for students
  • Sept. 1 — Labor Day holiday
  • Oct. 10 — End of first nine weeks; professional development flex day
  • Oct. 13 — Professional development flex day
  • Oct. 14 — Teacher workday
  • Nov. 11 — Veterans Day
  • Nov. 24-28 — Thanksgiving holiday
  • Dec. 19 — End of second nine weeks & first semester
  • Dec. 22-Jan. 5 — Winter holiday
  • Jan. 5 — Teacher workday
  • Jan. 6 — Students return to school
  • Jan. 19 — Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
  • Feb. 16 — School professional development
  • March 13 — End of second nine weeks
  • March 23-27 — Spring break
  • April (TBD) — E-learning for testing – High school students
  • April 10 — Teacher workday
  • May 21 — End of second semester; last day for students
  • May 22 — Teacher workday

In other business this week, the school board:

  • Honored school bus driver Greg Little for saving the life of a student by stopping his bus to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a student who was choking
  • Honored 16 African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino or indigenous/native students from Hoover and Spain park high schools who received National Recognition status from The College Board by scoring in the top 10% of test takers from their award program in Alabama on the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test or achieving at least a 3 score on two or more distinct AP exams in the ninth and/or 10th grade and earning a cumulative GPA of B+ or higher (at least 3.3 GPA)