Hello AAPS Community,

We are pleased to share the full 2025-26 and 2026-27 AAPS school year calendars as we look forward to the start of school on Monday, August 25th. Thank you for your patience as we worked collaboratively with our union partners to develop these calendars.

Thank you to the bargaining teams for reaching this agreement covering the next two school years.

The 2025-26 Calendar is available on our website at a2schools.org/calendar and you can see and download a text only version here. The 2026-27 Calendar is available here with a text version here.

Additionally, I want to share a change to the bus schedule that requires an adjustment to the elementary school bell times. AAPS will return to a 3-tier bus schedule for the 2025-2026 school year. A 3-tier bus schedule will provide better on-time service to middle and high school students who were combined for bus service on many routes with the current 2-tier bus system.

The 3-tier system requires a five-minute shift in start time and a five-minute shift in release time for Elementary students.

The new elementary bell time for 2025-2026: 8:50 a.m. to 3:53 p.m.

There are no bell time changes for Westerman Preschool, K-8 (A2 Open and A2 STEAM), Middle, and High Schools.

Have a safe and happy summer break.

Sincerely,

Jazz Parks

AAPS Superintendent