Mondays no more: Kennedale ISD to switch to four-day school week in 2026
Schools in Kennedale ISD will function on a four-day school week starting in January 2026, according to a newly approved academic calendar.
The Kennedale school board voted to approve the calendar during the Feb. 26 board meeting, according to a post on the district’s Facebook page.
Starting in January 2026, students in Kennedale will attend school Tuesday through Friday, according to the new calendar.
With an extra 15 minutes per day, students will not lose any instructional time. The four-day calendar allows for 76,320 instructional minutes in the school year, while Texas law requires a minimum of 75,600 minutes, according to the district’s website.
The district will begin the four-day schedule in the middle of the 2025-2026 school year to allow school communities to adjust to the new schedule, officials said. The first full year of the new schedule will be the 2026-2027 academic year.
Support services like the district’s backpack program, which supplies food to students over the weekend, will be expanded to cover the extra day off, according to the district’s website.
To examine whether the change to a four-day instructional week is successful, district officials will monitor data on student academic achievement, attendance rates and numbers of applicants for each open position in the district, according to the district website.
The calendar change is a pilot program tentatively scheduled to last for two and a half years.
