August 2026
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For Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle. Students start August 10 and finish May 28. Fall Break is October 14-16. December 18 and May 28 are early-release days with a 1:55 p.m. dismissal.
Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle School begin Monday, August 10, 2026, two days before the regular district calendar. ACE Fall Break runs October 14-16; there is no full February Mid-Winter Break. Students return January 5 after Winter Break and a January 4 staff day. December 18 and May 28 are early-release half days, with dismissal at 1:55 p.m. February 15 is a holiday that may be used for make-up instruction.
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Official calendar
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| First Day of School | School opens | |
| Labor Day | No classes | |
| Fall Break | through | No school |
| Staff Development and Workday — No Students | No classes | |
| Thanksgiving Break | through | No school |
| Early Release Half Day | Early dismissal | |
| Winter Break | through | No school |
| Teacher Professional Development — No Students | No classes | |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | No classes | |
| Presidents Day / Make-up Day (if needed) | If needed | |
| Spring Break | through | No school |
| Spring Holiday | No classes | |
| Last Day of School | School closes |
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Planning notes
The 2026–2027 ACE school calendar begins Aug 10, 2026 and ends May 28, 2027.
Use this calendar only for Ponderosa and Bailey. February 15 may become a make-up day. The ACE timetable differs from the generic elementary and middle-school timetable. Separate summer program captions do not establish attendance requirements or daily sessions. Campus notices control individual assessment assignments and conference arrangements not shown in this PDF.
Editorial summary
The ACE calendar applies to Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle School. Its first student day is August 10, 2026, rather than the regular district's August 12 start. Both campuses finish May 28, 2027. The regular ACE school day is 8:00 a.m.-4:25 p.m., with the first-bell transition period beginning at 7:50 a.m.
ACE Fall Break is October 14-16, leaving October 12 and 13 as class dates. November 2 is a half-PD/half-workday for staff with no students; unlike the regular calendar, ACE does not mark November 3 for a student conference closure. Thanksgiving Break is November 23-27. Winter Break runs December 21-January 1, followed by a January 4 staff day, so the second semester begins January 5.
February 15 is listed as Presidents Day and also marked as a possible make-up day. ACE does not have the regular calendar's February 16-19 Mid-Winter closure or selected-student intervention entries. Spring Break is March 15-19, followed by a separate March 26 Spring Holiday. The two ACE half days are December 18 and May 28, both with dismissal at 1:55 p.m.; the regular high-school-only half days do not apply to these campuses.
Common questions
Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle School use the ACE calendar. It is not the calendar for all Spring ISD elementary and middle schools; use the separate district or ADSY download if your child's campus is not one of these two.
On this campus calendar, ACE stands for Accelerating Campus Excellence. Spring ISD uses the 2026-2027 ACE calendar for Bailey Middle School and Ponderosa Elementary.
ACE students start Monday, August 10, 2026. That is two days before the regular district August 12 start. The first ACE grading period also opens August 10.
Friday, May 28, 2027, is the ACE last student day and an early-release half day. Ponderosa and Bailey dismiss at 1:55 p.m. The date also ends the fourth grading period.
The ACE schedule gives 181 attendance dates, calculated from 210 weekdays between August 10 and May 28, less 28 fixed no-class weekdays and the conditional February 15 make-up date. The PDF does not print an annual day total. Both half days remain attendance dates. With all other published dates unchanged, using February 15 as a make-up day would bring the scheduled count to 182.
ACE Fall Break is Wednesday, October 14-Friday, October 16. October 12 and 13 are class dates on the ACE calendar, unlike the regular district's full October 12-16 break. The next ACE class date is October 19.
Ponderosa and Bailey are off November 23-27, 2026, the same Thanksgiving week shown on the other calendars. The next class date is Monday, November 30.
The named Winter Break is December 21, 2026-January 1, 2027. January 4 is a separate staff-development day without students. From the weekend after the December 18 half day through January 4, students are out for 17 consecutive days, including weekends.
Ponderosa and Bailey return Tuesday, January 5, 2027, the first day of the second semester. They do not return January 4 because the ACE calendar lists that date as a no-student staff day.
No. The ACE calendar lists February 15 as Presidents Day, not a February 15-19 break. February 16-19 remain regular class dates. February 15 itself is conditional because it may be used as a make-up day.
No. It is named Presidents Day in the holiday list, but it may also be used as a make-up day. Follow district and campus announcements before assuming students will be off.
Spring Break runs March 15-19. Ponderosa and Bailey return Monday, March 22. March 26 is a separate Spring Holiday and does not extend Spring Break across the intervening class dates.
No. The ACE holiday list identifies Friday, March 26, as Spring Holiday. March 22-25 remain class dates before that separate Friday closure.
December 18, 2026, and May 28, 2027, are early-release half days for Ponderosa and Bailey. December 17 and May 27 are high-school-only early-release dates on the regular calendar and do not apply to these ACE campuses.
The ACE PDF specifies 1:55 p.m. for early release. That time applies to both named campuses on December 18 and May 28, rather than the regular elementary calendar's 12:55 p.m. time.
The regular ACE class day is 8:00 a.m.-4:25 p.m. The first-bell transition period is 7:50-8:00 a.m. The two early-release dates end at 1:55 p.m.
November 2 is a staff professional-development and workday with no students. ACE classes resume November 3; Ponderosa and Bailey do not have the regular calendar’s student holiday for parent-teacher conferences that day.
During the student year, ACE marks November 2 as a half-PD/half-workday and January 4 as professional development, both with no students. Staff training before the August 10 first day is not an additional student holiday within the school year.
Report-card distribution and IEP goal updates are listed for October 9, 2026, and January 8, March 12 and June 3, 2027. June 3 falls after the regular May 28 finish. The calendar lists these together without a delivery method or time.
The ACE periods are August 10-October 2, October 5-December 18, January 5-March 5 and March 8-May 28. Only the first period's start differs from the regular and ADSY calendars; report-card distribution has its own four dates.
The calendar marks December 7-11 and 14-18, then April 6-9, 12-16, 19-23 and 26-29 for STAAR/EOC testing. These are marked testing dates, not a daily test requirement for every student. Use your campus's grade and subject assignments.
The PDF separately lists June 8-July 1 for Pre-K-K EB students and June 8-July 9 as Tentative Summer School. These are program date spans, not a published daily attendance schedule or a requirement for every student. Check campus notices for participation and actual session dates. The PDF does not make those programs a universal ACE attendance requirement.
ACE starts August 10 instead of August 12, has October 14-16 rather than October 12-16 Fall Break, and keeps classes on February 16-19. It also has its own school hours and 1:55 p.m. early dismissal. November 3 is not an ACE conference closure.
Use the ACE PDF for Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle linked here or choose that campus-specific document from the district's Printable Calendars page. The instructional and ADSY files are separate schedules.
Reference
District and campus news for families.
Official calendar directory; choose the document for your campus.
Students following the district instructional calendar
Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle School
Bammel Elementary, Major Elementary and Heritage Elementary
Students following the district instructional calendar
Bammel Elementary, Major Elementary and Heritage Elementary
Source and scope
Spring ISD currently publishes this ACE calendar for Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle School, and campus announcements confirm the August 10 start. The PDF is revised June 23, 2026. Web text extraction includes a DRAFT label, while the same URL downloaded, rendered and text-extracted on October 6 did not display that label. The downloaded file hash is recorded with the source; the difference does not change the published attendance dates.
This calendar applies only to Ponderosa Elementary and Bailey Middle. Regular-calendar November 3 conferences, Mid-Winter Break and HS ONLY half days are not copied into ACE. No-student staff dates during the school year are retained, while staff training before August 10 and summer office closures are excluded. All early-release dates use the ACE timetable. Grouped or inferred schedule entries remain in events for attendance calculations and are labelled Calculated from calendar in the table, monthly view and subscription export; they do not claim official event titles.
The three district-hosted PDFs were reviewed visually and through text extraction on October 6, 2026. Their revision dates are preserved in the source metadata. The PDFs do not provide approval dates or revision histories. Later district or campus updates may alter make-up arrangements.
Use this calendar only for Ponderosa and Bailey. February 15 may become a make-up day. The ACE timetable differs from the generic elementary and middle-school timetable. Separate summer program captions do not establish attendance requirements or daily sessions. Campus notices control individual assessment assignments and conference arrangements not shown in this PDF.