The 2023-2024 course in Early Childhood, Primary and Special Education in the Community of Madrid will begin on September 6 and a day later the course for Compulsory Secondary, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training students will begin, reports the regional government.
The school calendar, which will be published in the coming days in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (BOCM), sets June 21 as the end date of the school year for the next academic year.
By educational stages, the Infant Schools, the Children's Houses (0-3 years), the Infant and Primary Education schools, Special Education and the Integrated Centers for Artistic Music and Primary Education will begin on September 6, and the Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), Baccalaureate, Vocational Training (FP) and the Integrated Centers for Artistic Music Education and ESO will do so on September 7.
The school calendar also includes that on September 11 the students of the Professional Conservatories of Music and Dance, the Official Language Schools and the second year of the Plastic Arts and Design cycles of the Art Schools will start their school activity.
In Adult Education centers the course will start on September 18 and the first course of the Plastic Arts and Design cycles on the 21st of that month.
The Christmas holidays will begin on December 23 and classes will resume on January 8, while the non-school period for Easter will take place between March 23 and 31, 2024.
October 12, November 1, December 6 and 8, 2023 will be general festivities, and October 13, December 7, 2023, as well as February 22 and 23, March 22, 1 April and May 3, 2024.
The course will end on July 31 in the first cycle of Infant Education and on June 21 in the second cycle of Infant, Primary, Special Education, ESO, FP, Artistic Music Teaching, Professional Music and Dance Conservatories, Official Language Schools, Schools of Art and Adult Education.
First-year Baccalaureate students will also finish on the same day, while for second-year students the dates will be adapted to the needs arising from the completion of the final evaluation and the admission procedures at the Universities.
The Community explains in its note that the calendar for educational centers supported with public funds in the region will be published in the coming days in the BOCM and that it can be consulted on the institutional website www.comunidad.madrid.
For its part, CC.OO. Madrid considers that the start of school is "absolute nonsense" with a "badly structured" calendar and due to the "lack of material time" for teacher preparation and planning, as pointed out by the General Secretary of Education, Isabel Galvín.
Galvín has reported that he rejected the proposed calendar order at the union table and the School Council, where the union was the only organization that voted against. "We directly reject the calendar proposals, especially the course start dates, because there is no material time for the start of the course to be prepared on these dates, a course in which the LOMLOE enters into force for the courses that did not enter last year," he recalled.
