Overview

• SEP officially closed the 2024-25 school year on July 16, sending 23.4 million students and 1.2 million teachers into a six-week summer break.
• The 2025-26 calendar reduces instructional days to 185 from 190, with teachers convening for intensive technical councils August 25–29 and students returning on September 1.
• Persistent disruptions marred the past cycle, including organized-crime violence that forced at least 582 Culiacán schools to close for 30 days and a 24-day CNTE strike that suspended classes in about 19,974 schools.
• Infrastructure gaps continue to widen educational inequities as roughly 25% of basic schools lack full services, 47% lack computers and 58% lack internet connectivity.
• Health-focused reforms gained traction with the Vive Saludable, Vive Feliz screenings covering over three million students and the elimination of junk-food sales in nearly 28,000 primary schools under the third year of the Nueva Escuela Mexicana model.