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Marie Lanen
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The 2024-2025 school calendar is an essential part of annual planning for French families. Here are the main points of the school calendar for the year 2024-2025.
The 2024-2025 school calendar is designed to balance work and rest periods, allowing students and teachers to better manage their time and energy throughout the year. It is important to note these dates and prepare for them in order to optimize family and professional organization. For more detailed information or for any possible changes, it is recommended to regularly consult the official website of the Ministry of National Education.
Class periods and school holidays
The 2024-2025 school year for students is set for Monday, September 2, 2024. Teachers will start their pre-school year on Friday, August 30, 2024. This school year is divided into five class periods, interspersed with four vacation periods.
- Back to school : Students: Monday September 2, 2024 – Teachers: Friday August 30, 2024
- All Saints’ Day Holidays : End of classes: Saturday October 19, 2024 – Resumption of classes: Monday November 4, 2024
- Christmas holidaysl: End of classes: Saturday December 21, 2024 – Resumption of classes: Monday January 6, 2025
- Winter holidays : Zone A: From Saturday, February 8, 2025 to Monday, February 24, 2025 – Zone B: From Saturday, February 15, 2025 to Monday, March 3, 2025 – Zone C: From Saturday, February 22, 2025 to Monday, March 10, 2025
- Spring break : Zone A: From Saturday, April 12, 2025 to Monday, April 28, 2025 – Zone B: From Saturday, April 19, 2025 to Monday, May 5, 2025 – Zone C: From Saturday, April 26, 2025 to Monday, May 12, 2025
- Summer holidays : End of classes: Saturday July 5, 2025
Holiday areas
In France, the winter and spring holidays are staggered according to three academic zones in order to distribute the flow of vacationers. Here is the distribution for the year 2024-2025:
- Zone A: Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers
- Zone B: Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg
- Zone C: Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Versailles
School calendar 2024-2025: public holidays
In addition to school holidays, several public holidays punctuate the school year. For 2024-2025, the public holidays are as follows:
- Monday, November 11, 2024: Armistice 1918
- Wednesday, December 25, 2024: Christmas
- Wednesday January 1, 2025: New Year’s Day
- Monday April 1, 2025: Easter Monday
- Wednesday May 1, 2025: Labor Day
- Wednesday May 8, 2025: Victory 1945
- Thursday May 29, 2025: Ascension
- Monday June 9, 2025: Whit Monday
- Monday July 14, 2025: National Day
