Are NYC public schools open today?
No — NYC public schools are closed for summer break today, Friday, August 14. The new school year begins Thursday, September 10. No classes are in session citywide. Check this page each morning once school resumes.
How the NYC public school calendar works
New York City Public Schools runs one citywide calendar for all district schools, set and published each year by the New York City Department of Education. New York State requires 180 days of instruction, so the year runs from a published first day in September to a last day in June. Built into the school-year calendar are single-day public holidays and four multi-day recesses — Thanksgiving, winter, midwinter, and spring. Charter and private schools set their own calendars and may not match the DOE's, even on the same holidays.
What closes NYC public schools
Closures come in two kinds. Scheduled closures are known and planned in advance and published on the DOE calendar: every weekend, public holidays, and the Thanksgiving, winter, midwinter, and spring recesses. These are fixed for the year, so you can plan around them. Unscheduled closures are emergencies, most often severe weather; the City announces them with little notice, usually the evening before or the morning of. The scheduled closures are predictable; the emergency ones are why it's worth a quick check here on a storm morning.
2026–27 NYC public school closure calendar
View all 30 closed school days for 2026–27
Every scheduled closure for the 2026–27 school year, from the NYC DOE calendar. Emergency closures (like snow) aren't listed here — check the live status at the top of this page.
September
- Mon, Sep 21Yom Kippur
October
- Mon, Oct 12Italian Heritage / Indigenous Peoples' Day
November
- Wed, Nov 11Veterans Day
- Thu, Nov 26 – Fri, Nov 27Thanksgiving Recess
December
- Thu, Dec 24 – Fri, Jan 1Winter Recess
January
- Mon, Jan 18Martin Luther King Jr. Day
February
- Mon, Feb 15 – Fri, Feb 19Midwinter Recess
March
- Tue, Mar 9Eid al-Fitr
- Fri, Mar 26Good Friday
April
- Thu, Apr 22 – Fri, Apr 30Spring Recess
May
- Mon, May 17Eid al-Adha
- Mon, May 31Memorial Day
June
- Thu, Jun 10Anniversary Day (Chancellor's Conference Day)
Snow days and remote-learning days
When severe weather forces schools to close, New York City no longer defaults to a traditional day off. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the standard response is a remote-learning day: school buildings close, but classes continue online, which keeps the year on track for the state's 180-day requirement. In practice, that means a weather closure usually shuts the buildings but not the school day — classes just move online. There are exceptions: the City has occasionally called a full snow day with no remote classes when a storm is severe enough, or when remote learning isn't practical. Either way, the decision is made by the City and NYC Public Schools and announced through official channels, usually the evening before or early that morning. This page reflects the current citywide building open/closed status; on the rare remote-learning day, the City will confirm whether classes are meeting online.
NYC public school closures: frequently asked questions
Are NYC public schools open today?
Today’s status is right at the top of this page — one glance, every morning. During the school year, NYC public schools are open every weekday except the holidays and recesses on our calendar above, plus the occasional weather emergency, when the status here reflects the City’s latest call.
Are NYC public schools open tomorrow?
Check the status here — for tomorrow or any upcoming weekday, our NYC school calendar above shows at a glance whether it’s a scheduled school day, holiday, or recess, so you can plan the week without hunting through a PDF. Scheduled days are set a year ahead, so tomorrow’s planned status is knowable today. The one thing no calendar can predict is a weather closure — the City decides those with little notice, usually the night before or that morning, and this page updates to reflect the call when it comes.
Do NYC public schools have snow days, or are they remote-learning days now?
Usually remote-learning days. Since the pandemic, NYC’s default when weather closes school buildings is to hold classes online rather than give the day off, to meet the state’s 180-day requirement. The City has occasionally declared a full snow day when a storm is severe enough that remote learning isn’t practical.
How are NYC school closures decided and announced?
Scheduled closures are set a year ahead on the published DOE calendar, built around public holidays and religious observances. Emergency closures are decided by the City and NYC Public Schools, who closely monitor storm forecasts and announce decisions through official channels — usually the evening before or early the morning of an approaching storm.
When does the NYC school year start and end?
The 2026–27 school year runs from September 10, 2026 to June 28, 2027. Exact dates are set each year on the published DOE calendar.
When are Thanksgiving, winter, midwinter, and spring recesses?
NYC public schools observe four multi-day breaks a year: Thanksgiving recess in November, winter recess in late December, midwinter recess in February, and spring recess in April. Exact dates are set on the DOE calendar each year.
Are charter and private schools closed when NYC public schools are?
Not necessarily. Charter and private schools set their own calendars and decide their own closures, so they may be open when district schools are closed, or the reverse. One exception: charter schools housed inside DOE buildings close when the City closes those buildings.
Where does TodayIn get its NYC school status?
The calendar is set by the NYC Department of Education. For each day during the school year, TodayIn reads the City’s live 311 status feed for the citywide open/closed answer, and uses the published DOE calendar — which we show in full above — to flag scheduled holidays and recesses and to tell you when classes resume. Over the summer, we show the break dates straight from that calendar. We surface the City’s own data — we don’t set or interpret it.