Next year, some schoolchildren will have more opportunities than others regarding the holidays. Which students are temporarily advantaged?
On September 2, 2024, French students will return to school for 7 weeks before the All Saints’ Day holidays. They will then have to work for another 7 weeks before being able to rest and be with their families during the Christmas holidays which take place from December 21, 2024 to January 6, 2025. But then, they will not experience the same fate at all and some schoolchildren will be luckier than others!
Indeed, schoolchildren in zone C (academies of Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Versailles) will not go on winter vacation until February 15 and those in zone A (academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers) until February 22, 2025. They will therefore enjoy a well-deserved rest well after the young people in zone B, namely those living in the academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg who will be on vacation on Saturday, February 8, barely a month after their return to school. But the situation will then recover and will even be to their disadvantage.
While they will have to wait 6 weeks before the spring holidays (April 5) just like the students in zone C (April 12) and zone A (April 19), the students in zone B will then have to be more patient than their classmates before the highly anticipated summer holidays. This time, they will have to wait 11 weeks after the spring holidays before enjoying the summer, compared to 10 weeks for those in zone C and 9 weeks for those in zone A…
Finally, regarding public holidays, it is the pupils in zone A who will be disadvantaged, because if all the children will be on holiday during Easter Monday, they will be the only ones not to take a break on Thursday 1st May which falls during their school holidays! However, they will be able to catch up on their sleep quota on Thursday 8th May, but also take the bridge during Ascension Thursday which takes place on 29th May 2025. As for the next school year, it will take place for everyone on 1st September 2025!