MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

HOLIDAYS

PUBLIC SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

[photo, Canton Middle School, 801 South Highland Ave., Baltimore, Maryland}

2005

2004

Local Departments of Education

State Department of Education

Canton Middle School, 801 South Highland Ave., Baltimore, Maryland, May 2002. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

In Maryland, if federal and State observances of a holiday fall on different days, each local board of education determines on which date the holiday will be observed in its public schools (Code Education Article, sec. 7-103).

For more information on public school schedules, see: http://marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/schoolsystems/System_Opening_Closings.htm

2005
January 1 (Saturday)	New Year's Day
January 17 (Monday)	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday* (observed)
February 21 (third Monday)	Presidents' Day
March 25-28	Good Friday through the day after Easter
May 30 (Monday)	Memorial Day*
November 24-25 (fourth Thursday & Friday)	Thanksgiving Day and the day after
December 24-31	Christmas Eve through end of year

2004
January 1 (Thursday)	New Year's Day
January 19 (Monday)	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday
February 16 (third Monday)	Presidents' Day
March 2 (Tuesday)	Primary Election Day*
April 9-12	Good Friday through the day after Easter
May 31 (Monday)	Memorial Day
November 2 (Tuesday)	Election Day*
November 25 (fourth Thursday) & 26	Thanksgiving Day and the day after
December 24-31	Christmas Eve through end of year