Orlando Spring Break 2027: School Dates and Crowd Planning

1. Week by week, March 1 to April 30, 2027

Each week lists the school systems in this guide with a spring break that week, then any separate full no-school days. Weekends are shaded differently on purpose. A weekend next to a break can matter for travel, but it isn’t a school closure, and nothing below treats it as one.

1. March 1 to 7

   Mon1

   Tue2

   Wed3

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   Sun7

   Spring break: English Montreal School Board, youth sector (Mar 1 to 5).

   Also no school: Cincinnati (Mar 1), Lake County FL (Mar 5).

2. March 8 to 14

   Mon8

   Tue9

   Wed10

   Thu11

   Fri12

   Sat13

   Sun14

   Spring break: Houston ISD (Mar 8 to 12).

   Also no school: Hillsborough (Mar 8); Montgomery County MD, New York City and Bridgeport (Mar 9); Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Fairfax, Philadelphia and Newark (Mar 10); Wake County, teacher workday (Mar 10); Duval (Mar 11 and 12); Orange and Osceola (Mar 12).

3. March 15 to 21

   Mon15

   Tue16

   Wed17

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   Fri19

   Sat20

   Sun21

   Spring break: Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Polk, Volusia, Pinellas and Duval in Florida; Dallas ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD and Indianapolis Public Schools; Toronto and York Region in Ontario (all Mar 15 to 19).

   Also no school: Fulton County and Grand Rapids (Mar 15); Brevard and Broward (Mar 19).

4. March 22 to 28 (Easter weekend)

   Mon22

   Tue23

   Wed24

   Thu25

   Good Fri26

   Sat27

   Easter28

   Spring break: Lake, Brevard, Hillsborough, Pasco, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach in Florida; Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles Unified and Fairfax (Mar 22 to 26); Philadelphia (Mar 22 to 25). Starting Friday, Mar 26: Columbus, Montgomery County MD and Ann Arbor (to Apr 2), plus Birmingham and Surrey council schools (to Apr 9).

   Also no school: Volusia (Mar 22); Columbus records day (Mar 25). On Good Friday, Mar 26: Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Newark, Bridgeport, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Wake, Detroit, Houston ISD, Dallas ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks, Duval, Polk, Toronto, York Region, English Montreal and Manchester.

5. March 29 to April 4

   Easter Mon29

   Tue30

   Wed31

   Thu1

   Fri2

   Sat3

   Sun4

   Spring break: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Wake County (traditional calendar), Detroit and Newark (Mar 29 to Apr 2); Columbus, Montgomery County MD and Ann Arbor continue to Apr 2; Birmingham and Surrey continue; Grand Rapids starts Friday, Apr 2.

   Also no school: Easter Monday, Mar 29, in Toronto, York Region, English Montreal and Manchester. Also Mar 29: Houston ISD (Chavez-Huerta Day), Philadelphia, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Pasco. Los Angeles Unified (Mar 31).

6. April 5 to 11

   Mon5

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   Spring break: Atlanta Public Schools, Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett in Georgia; Grand Rapids; Birmingham and Surrey (all to Apr 9). Manchester starts Apr 5 (to Apr 16).

   Also no school: Chicago (Apr 6).

7. April 12 to 18

   Mon12

   Tue13

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   Spring break: Bridgeport (Apr 12 to 16); Manchester (to Apr 16).

   Also no school: Chicago and Montgomery County MD (Apr 12); Houston ISD, Philadelphia, Hillsborough and Lake (Apr 16).

8. April 19 to 25

   Mon19

   Tue20

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   Fri23

   Sat24

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   Spring break: Boston (Apr 20 to 23, right after Patriots’ Day on Apr 19); New York City starts Apr 22.

   Also no school: Boston, Patriots’ Day (Apr 19); Fairfax (Apr 19 and 20).

9. April 26 to 30

   Mon26

   Tue27

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   Thu29

   Fri30

   Spring break: New York City (to Apr 30).

   Also no school: Cypress-Fairbanks (Apr 26).

Days that might become days off. Some calendars hold a day in reserve for weather makeup. These are school days or holidays only if the district doesn’t need them, so they aren’t in the weeks above: Cypress-Fairbanks Mar 12; Seminole Mar 22; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Mar 25; Pinellas Mar 26 and Apr 23; Dallas ISD Mar 29 and Apr 19; Duval Mar 29 and Apr 26; Wake Apr 5; Pasco Apr 16; Montgomery County MD Apr 22; Orange Apr 23. Newark says makeup days may come out of spring recess. Check with the district closer to your trip.

2. Every district in this guide

This is the full list, with the exact calendar each date comes from. A district is only itself. Indianapolis Public Schools isn’t the township districts around it, Detroit isn’t every Michigan school, and Newark isn’t all of New Jersey. Wake County publishes several calendars, and only the traditional one is here.

Dates are student no-school weekdays. Early releases, at-home learning days and religious observances when school still meets aren’t counted as days off. Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids start their breaks on a Friday, so the weekend in between sits inside their published range. We also looked for Peel District School Board in Ontario and Glasgow in Scotland, but couldn’t confirm official 2027 dates, so they’re left out.

3. Florida vs. the rest of the US vs. Canada and the UK

These groups are geographic. They aren’t a ranking of who visits Orlando most, and a longer list in one group doesn’t mean more people in the parks.

Florida and the Orlando area

The 14 Florida districts split evenly. Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Polk, Volusia, Pinellas and Duval are off March 15 to 19. Lake, Brevard, Hillsborough, Pasco, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach are off March 22 to 26. None of them take the week after Easter off.

The edges differ too. Orange and Osceola also give students Friday, March 12 off, so local families there have that Friday plus the weekend before the break. Volusia adds Monday, March 22. Brevard and Broward add Friday, March 19 before their break, and Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Pasco add Monday, March 29 after it.

Other US districts

Outside Florida the dates spread out across eight weeks:

• Early March: Houston ISD, March 8 to 12. Dallas ISD and Cypress-Fairbanks are a week later.
• March 15 to 19: Dallas ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks and Indianapolis Public Schools.
• March 22 to 26: Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles Unified and Fairfax. Philadelphia runs March 22 to 25, then Good Friday and a staff day keep students out through March 29.
• Around Easter: Columbus, Montgomery County MD and Ann Arbor from March 26 to April 2. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Wake (traditional), Detroit and Newark from March 29 to April 2, with Good Friday off too.
• Early April: Atlanta Public Schools, Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett, April 5 to 9. Grand Rapids runs April 2 to 9.
• Mid to late April: Bridgeport April 12 to 16, Boston April 19 to 23 with Patriots’ Day, and New York City April 22 to 30.

Canada and the UK

English Montreal’s youth sector is off March 1 to 5. Toronto and York Region are off March 15 to 19, then close again for Good Friday (March 26) and Easter Monday (March 29). That’s one Quebec board and two Ontario boards, not every school in Canada.

In England, Birmingham and Surrey council-calendar schools are out March 26 to April 9. Manchester works differently: schools close for Good Friday and Easter Monday, have school on the council calendar March 30 to April 2, then break April 5 to 16. Academies and some other school types in all three set their own dates.

4. What spring 2026 taught us

We measured every day of spring 2026 at Islands of Adventure on our 1 to 10 crowd level, where 1 is a walk-on day. These are recorded levels for days that already happened, not forecasts. Three things stood out.

• Busy came in waves, not one peak week. The busiest weekdays were March 17 to 20 (levels 6 to 8), March 31 to April 3 (6 to 7) and April 6 to 10 (6 to 7).
• Quiet weeks sat right between them. March 2 to 6 ran 1 to 3, March 23 to 26 ran 2 to 3, and April 13 to 17 ran 1 to 3.
• Easter wasn’t the peak. Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026, measured a 3. Saturdays and Sundays inside the break weeks scored lower than the weekdays around them.

That’s one park in one spring, so treat it as a pattern worth checking, not a rule. And don’t shift last year’s dates forward. School boards set their own calendars, and Easter falls eight days earlier in 2027, so busy and quiet weeks won’t line up with 2026’s. The full daily record is on the Islands of Adventure crowd calendar.

5. Live crowd calendars for March and April 2027

For the forecast on a specific day, use the park calendars. They update nightly, so they’ll change between now and your trip. The school-break markers on those calendars come from this same research. A marker tells you which listed systems are off that day. It isn’t a crowd number.

One note on Epic Universe: 2026 was its first spring, so there’s no multi-year Easter pattern there yet.

6. Planning FAQ

How we built this

We read each date from the school system’s own published calendar on September 10, 2026, matched to the exact calendar variant named in the table, and rechecked every source link on September 23, 2026. This is a selected list of 44 school systems (38 in the US, 3 in Canada, 3 in England), not every district. We don’t weight districts by enrollment or guess how many families travel, and the number of districts off in a week isn’t a crowd level. Calendars can change, especially after weather closures, so confirm with your district before you book. Our 2026 spring break guide stays up as an archive. Its weekly levels were forecasts made before the season, not the measured daily levels used above.