The year-round option begins earlier in the summer and includes longer breaks during the school year.
The Tucson Unified School District proposed a four-day school week and a year-round calendar for the 2027-28 school year in an email survey to families over the summer break and late Friday afternoon.
The year-round option begins earlier in the summer and includes longer breaks during the school year.
TUSD is Southern Arizona’s largest school district with about 35,000 students in 88 schools.
The district is currently tackling issues with chronic absenteeism and declining enrollment.
In the school calendar survey, the district floated four possible school schedules: the first mirrors the 2026-27 school year, the second extends Thanksgiving break, the third is a four-day school week, and the last is a year-round option.
No formal survey discussion has happened yet, Dr.
Ravi Shah, TUSD Governing Board president told Arizona Luminaria via text message.
“The district has a calendar committee working on options to present to the board.
We’re just trying to see what parents think about different options.”
A four-day week was adopted by the board last spring for Palo Verde High School.
Friday concluded the first full week of that new schedule.
The east side school is the first traditional public school in the Tucson area with a four-day school week.
The proposed calendar is similar to Palo Verde’s schedule, which runs Monday-Thursday with Fridays off.
Palo Verde is a pilot program without an official time limit and will cost more than $6.2 million, TUSD’s financial analysis said last April.