The 2026/2027 school year will start later than usual at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

On Aug. 21 the OPRF District 200 Board of Education voted 5 to 2 to change the school’s calendar for next year in an effort to make sure all the learning spaces in the school are ready after the district’s Project 2 construction project ends next summer.

The first day of school next year will be Aug. 24 for freshmen and Aug. 25 for the other OPRF students. This year the first day of school was Aug. 12 for freshmen and Aug. 13 for other OPRF students.

The biggest change with the new schedule will be that first semester final exams will occur in January instead of before the winter break. The first semester has ended before the Winter Break since the 2012-13 school year. The 2026-27 school year

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