{"id":4436,"date":"2026-01-05T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4436\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:14:11","slug":"2026-school-reopening-dates-and-academic-calendar-by-education-ministry-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4436\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 school reopening dates and academic calendar by Education Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius K. Bitok<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Education has officially released the
\nacademic calendar dates for the 2026 academic year.<\/p>\n

The comprehensive schedule details term dates for Basic
\nEducation Institutions and Diploma Teachers Training Colleges (DTTCs).<\/p>\n

Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Bitok signed
\nthe circular, which was copied to Education CS Julius Ogamba, the Teachers
\nService Commission, Kenya National Examination Council and Council of Governors.<\/p>\n

The circular has been dispatched to all regional directors
\nof education, county directors of education and sub-county directors of
\neducation.<\/p>\n

Basic Education Institutions, which include pre-primary,
\nprimary, junior, senior, and secondary schools, will begin the year on January
\n5, 2026.<\/p>\n

Term I will run for 13 weeks, closing on April 2, 2026.
\nStudents will enjoy a five-day half-term break from February 25 to March 1,
\n2026.<\/p>\n

The April holiday is set for three weeks, from April 7 to April
\n24, 2026.<\/p>\n

Term II is scheduled to last 14 weeks, opening on April 27 and
\nconcluding on July 31, 2026.<\/p>\n

A second half term will take place between June 24 and June
\n28. This will be followed by a three-week August holiday, which ends on August
\n21.<\/p>\n

The final term, Term III, will be the shortest at nine
\nweeks. It is scheduled from \u00a0August 24 to
\nOctober 23, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The circular also confirms the dates for all major national
\nexaminations. The Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) and Kenya
\nIntermediate Level Education Assessment (KILEA) are slated for five days.<\/p>\n

They will run from October 26, 2026. The Kenya Junior School
\nEducation Assessment (KJSEA) and Kenya Pre-Vocational Level Education
\nAssessment (KPLEA) will also begin on October 26. <\/p>\n

They will run for seven days.
\nThe Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) will take place over three
\nweeks. KCSE is scheduled from November 2 to November 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

Students will then begin their long end-of-year break. The
\nDecember holiday is scheduled to last 10 weeks. It will run from October 26,
\n2026, until \u00a0January 1, 2027.<\/p>\n

Separately, the Diploma Teachers Training Colleges will
\nfollow a similar schedule.<\/p>\n

Their Term III, however, will extend until November 6, 2026,
\nlasting 11 weeks. Their December holiday starts on November 9.<\/p>\n

The Ministry has also maintained an existing restriction for
\nsecondary schools.<\/p>\n

The circular states clearly, \u201cActivities and visits to
\nsecondary schools in third term 2026 remain banned as per the earlier
\ncirculars.\u201d The document was directed to all institutions of basic education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius K. Bitok The Ministry of Education has officially released the academic calendar dates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2258,2254,2256,2257,80,2255,98,100,101,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-4436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-basic-education-institutions","9":"tag-basic-education-principal-secretary-julius-k-bitok","10":"tag-diploma-teachers-training-colleges","11":"tag-education-cs-julius-ogamba","12":"tag-kenya","13":"tag-school-calendar","14":"tag-star-news","15":"tag-star-news-kenya","16":"tag-the-star","17":"tag-the-star-newspaper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}