SCHOOL CALENDAR 2024-2025
Aug 2024
August: Review 5-Year Plan
August 5 Staff returns. On Site Teacher Training
August 9: Open House for all families 9:30-12pm
August 12: First Day of Classes
August 21-25: Readiness Tests Administered - K-8, Math and English
August 29: Back to School 2pm-3pm
Late August: Cognia Survey #1 Perception Survey/Readiness - (Families, Teachers, Students),
Monitoring Assessment Form A and Literature Baseline Assessment
August: ACT/SAT Seniors
Sept 2024
Late Sept: Cognia Survey #2 Student Engagement Survey
September 13: Student Government Association Election
September 17: Graduation Class of 2025 Planning (with parents via zoom)
September 20: Fair Day! Senior fundraising event school-wide fair.
September: ACT/SAT Seniors
Oct 2024
October 8: Quarter 1 Ends
October 9: Quarter 2 Begins
Week of October 14: Parent Teacher Conferences
Before Oct 14: Teacher Observations, Eleot #1
Late October: Survey 3: Inventory Survey (Staff and Student)
October: ACT/SAT Seniors
October 25: Field Trip
October 31: School Wide Party - 8am-2:30pm School Day/3:00pm - 8:00pm Party
Nov 2024
November 1-8: Mix of Public Holidays & Teacher Training/No School
November 11: Public Holiday, Los Santos Uprising
November 28-29: Panama Holiday/No School
November: ACT/SAT Seniors
Dec 2024
December 2-6: Formal Teacher Observations #1 and Eleot
December 6: Elementary Field Trip
December 9: No School, Mother's Day Observed
December 11-15: Mid-Year Exams
December 15: Rio Hato Christmas Gift Give Away led by JLM Christian Foundation
December 18: Semester Closing Celebration 8am - Presentations, Drama, Music, Fair Day, Pot Luck!
December 20: Community Service Weekend, Penonome
December 20-January 13: Mid-Year Break
December: ACT/SAT Juniors
Jan 2025
January 13: Classes Resume/Quarter 3 Begins
January 13-17: Meetings with Grade 9,10, 11, 12 students. Review transcripts and academic plans.
January 23: Graduation Meeting Class of 2025 with parents
Late January: Mid-Year Tests Administered, Monitoring Assessment Form B and Literature Mid-Year Assessment
January: ACT/SAT Juniors
Feb 2025
February 13-17: Survey 4 Climate and Culture Survey, Informal Observations and Eleot
February: ACT/SAT Juniors
February 28: Carnival at FSA!
Mar 2025
March 3-7: Carnival
March 21: Q3 Ends
Marc 24: Q4 Begins
March 31: Deadline to register for returning families
March: ACT/SAT Juniors
Apr 2025
April 1: Registration opens for new families for 2025-2026 school year
April 2: Meeting with Grade 8 students and families
April 7-11: Welcome students and faculty from The Maryland International Day School!
April 14-18: Semana Santa
April 21-25: Formal Teacher Observations #2 and Eleot
April 30: High School Due Date for choosing electives
April: ACT/SAT Juniors
May 2025
May 1: Panama Labor Day/No School
May 6-17: AP EXAMS
May 16: Last day of school for Seniors
May 23: GRADUATION CLASS OF 2025
May 19-23: End of Year Assessments, Monitoring Assessment Form C and Literature End-Year Assessment
May 28: 8am Kindergarten and Grade 8 Graduation Ceremony
May 29: Last day of learning/Quarter 4 Ends
May 30: School Closing Program
May: ACT/SAT Juniors