Overview
- Education Ministry Resolution 501-2025 formalizes the 2026 calendar for public schools and confirms the close of the 2025 cycle on Friday, Dec. 19.
- The 2026 academic year is organized into four instructional blocks: Mar. 16–May 15, May 25–Jul. 24, Aug. 10–Oct. 9, and Oct. 19–Dec. 18.
- The regular matrícula window runs Jan. 31–Feb. 4, 2026, with student registration activated in the SIAGIE system.
- Regional guidance in Junín orders schools to submit reports, evaluation actas and institutional plans to UGELs by Jan. 9, 2026, with records entered in SIAGIE; pedagogical teachers receive 60 days of vacation in Jan.–Feb., and school directors with hours in charge receive 30.
- Private schools in Peru may bring students back earlier, while in Mexico the SEP calendar sets a Dec. 22–Jan. 9 winter break with classes resuming Jan. 12, and IPN upper-secondary schools returning Jan. 5 alongside locally adjusted winter hours in colder states.