Overview
- The Secretaría de Educación Pública published the 2026–2027 national calendar in the DOF that fixes the school year to begin Monday, August 31 and requires 185 effective school days for preescolar, primaria and secundaria.
- The calendar explicitly does not list Tuesday, September 1 as a suspension day so schools are expected to hold classes that day despite the presidential Second Report scheduled for the same date.
- The schedule details eight Friday sessions for Consejo Técnico Escolar, nine official suspension dates and vacation periods including winter break from December 21, 2026 to January 6, 2027 and Easter break from March 22 to April 2, 2027.
- Business groups and consumer authorities mobilized ahead of the start: Concanaco estimated a 144,450 million peso back-to-school spillover and an average household expense of 6,044 pesos per basic-education student while Profeco organized 54 fairs and local chambers launched campaigns in 22 states.
- State and federal measures to ease the return include Sonora’s reported 72 infrastructure actions and free uniforms, continuing national support programs such as 22.8 million beneficiaries of Becas para el Bienestar, and the first official suspension day on the calendar set for September 16.