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Pinellas County Hurricane Make-Up Days Revealed

Pinellas County Schools reveled their hurricane make-up days for the rest of the 2024-2025 school year. So, Pinellas County schools recommend having students attend January 6, which was already a…

Hurricane Make-Up Days

Hurricane Make-Up Days

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Pinellas County Schools reveled their hurricane make-up days for the rest of the 2024-2025 school year. So, Pinellas County schools recommend having students attend January 6, which was already a make-up day. February 17 will now be a full day instead of a teacher planning day. May 29 was originally going to be a half day will be a full day.

Middle School and High School students will have their first semester exams waived so they can get an extra week of instruction. High School seniors will end up having their graduations pushed to the end of May instead of the middle of May. And just like Polk County and Hillsborough County, no changes to Thanksgiving, winter, or spring breaks have been made.

Other Tampa Bay Counties Hurricane Make-Up Days

Polk County recently revealed their hurricane make-up days and you can see them below.

  • Friday, Nov. 22, 2024
  • Friday, Dec. 20, 2024
  • Friday, Jan. 17, 2025
  • Friday, Feb. 14, 2025
  • Friday, March 14, 2025
  • Thursday, April 7, 2025

Hillsborough County have extended the no early release Monday's through the end of the school year except for January 6 and January 13. All other Mondays will now be full days. Also, semester one exams are waived for middle and high school students.

Usually, both Florida State Fair Day and Strawberry Festival Day are non-student days where students don’t go to school. Now, on Florida State Fair Day, which is Friday, February 14 it is a non-student day for only schools on the west side of the county. Students on the county’s east side will have a full school day. Strawberry Festival Day, which is on Monday, March 3 is a non-student day for the schools on the east side of the county. The schools on the west side of the county will have a full school day. Finally middle school credit and high school credit classes will be adjusted to 50 minutes, but elementary school class minutes will not change.

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