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What we can verify

Academic year 2026/27

Every school on this site gets holiday dates. Not all of them get their own holiday dates, and the difference matters if you’re about to book flights against them. Here is exactly where the line falls.

So roughly 98% of schools sit in an authority whose own dates we hold. For everyone else we show the pattern most of England follows, and we label it as an estimate on the page rather than presenting it as fact.

Councils we hold

Read from each council’s own published page, with the source linked next to the dates. Every date arrives with the sentence it was read from, and that sentence is checked against the page before the date is kept – so these are quotations, not guesses. A council whose page we couldn’t read stays on the national pattern below rather than being filled in.

Where we fall back

The -49 English authorities not listed above. Dates come from the national pattern. It is right far more often than not, and it is not your school’s calendar. Some of these councils put their calendar behind a bot check, which we do not try to get past.

Wales. 22 of 22 councils read from their own pages, listed above and labelled. The other 0 fall back to the English pattern, which Wales does not follow - treat those as a placeholder.

Scotland. 32 of 32 councils read from their own pages, listed above and labelled. The other 0 fall back to the commonest Scottish dates among those - Scotland breaks in mid-October, mid-February and from late June, so the English pattern is never used for a Scottish school.

Northern Ireland. Not covered.

Independent schools we can’t read. These set their own dates and rarely match the council: of the London independents we can read, not one follows the state October half term and most break for a fortnight. Where we haven’t got a school’s own page we say so in bold, on the page, before any price.

Summer, for most independent schools. A school’s summer holiday ends when its next year begins, and most only publish one year at a time. Where a school has published September 2027 we hold the whole summer; for the rest, the longest and most expensive trip of the year is on a fallback.

How to check

Every school you add shows where its dates came from and links to the source, so you can confirm it in one click. If a date is wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it for everyone at that school.