Key Dates
2021-22 School Year
Updated January 29, 2021
| August | 23 | Preseason Athletics Begin (HS) |
| August | 23 | New Faculty & Staff Antiracism/Orientation Workshops |
| August | 30 | Opening Faculty Meetings Begin (All Faculty & Staff) |
| September | 6 | Labor Day (school closed) |
| September | 7 | Rosh Hashanah (school closed) |
| September | 8 | Grades 9, 10 & 12 Orientations |
| September | 8 | Grade 5 & 7 Orientations |
| September | 9 | Grade 6 & 8 Orientations |
| September | 9 | Grade 11 Retreat/Orientation |
| September | 9 | EC and LS Opening -- early dismissal (JK-4) |
| September | 9-10 | Grade 9 Trip with Grade 12 Peer Leaders |
| September | 10 | MS Opening (full day) |
| September | 10 | Grade 10 Trip |
| September | 13 | HS Opening Day |
| September | 16 | Yom Kippur (school closed) |
| October | 11 | Fall Weekend (school closed) |
| October | 12 | Faculty Professional Day (no school) |
| November | 2 | CANCELLED: EC/LS/MS Visiting Day; ALL GRADES WILL STILL DISMISS EARLY; election day |
| November | 11 | JK–12 Conference Day (no school) |
| November | 23 | Thanksgiving Break begins at end of school day |
| November | 24-26 | Thanksgiving Vacation |
| November | 29 | School Reopens |
| December | 17 | Winter Break Begins (early dismissal) |
| January | 3 | School Reopens |
| January | 17 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (school closed) |
| February | 2 | EC & LS Conference Day (no school JK-4) |
| February | 21-22 | Presidents' Day Weekend (school closed) |
| March | 11 | Spring Break - begins at end of school day |
| March | 28 | School reopens |
| April | 15 | Good Friday (school closed) |
| April | 21 | Grades 2–11 Conference Day (no school except for JK, K and Grade 1) |
| May | 11 | Early Childhood Conference Day (no school for JK, K & Grade 1) |
| May | 27 | Commencement |
| May | 30 | Memorial Day (School Closed) |
| June | 14 | HS Closing |
| June | 14 | EC & LS Closing |
| June | 15 | MS Closing Exercises |
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Grace Church School is a co-educational independent school in downtown Manhattan, New York City providing instruction for nearly 800 students in Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12.
