LIST: First Days of School
Published: Jul. 31, 2026 at 1:01 PM EDT|Updated: 13 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - We may be in the dog days of summer, but it won’t be long before a new academic year kicks off in communities across western Massachusetts.
Here’s a list of when your kiddos are heading back to class:
August 24
- Holyoke
- Springfield
August 25
- Palmer
August 26
- Amherst-Pelham
- Chicopee
- Clarksburg
- Cummington
- Erving
- Florida
- Frontier Regional
- Granby
- Leverett
- Mahar Regional
- Monroe
- New Salem
- Northampton
- Orange
- Rowe
- Savoy
- Shutesbury
- Union #38
- Ware
August 27
- Chesterfield-Goshen
- Easthampton
- Gill-Montague
- Hadley
- Hatfield
- Longmeadow
- South Hadley
- Southampton
- Westhampton
- Williamsburg
- Worthington
August 31
- Franklin County Tech
- Gateway Regional
- Hampden-Wilbraham
- Huntington
- Middlefield
- Monson
- Southwick-Tolland-Granville
- Westfield
September 1
- Hampshire Regional
- Pathfinder
September 2
- Belchertown
- Bernardston
- Brimfield
- Brookfield
- East Longmeadow
- Greenfield
- Holland
- Leyden
- Ludlow
- Mohawk-Hawlemont Regional
- Northfield
- Pioneer Valley Regional
- Tantasqua
- Wales
- Warwick
September 3
- Agawam
- West Springfield
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