School year 2025-2026 will officially open on June 16, 2025.
The Department of Education (DepEd) has officially announced that public schools nationwide will open for the 2025-2026 school year on June 16, 2025, in a news report over the Holy Week weekend. The academic year will run until March 31, 2026, covering 197 school days, including the End-of-School-Year (EOSY) rites.
This marks a return to the pre-pandemic school calendar, as outlined in DepEd Order No. 12, Series of 2025.
Heat in schools
The school year first shifted to October in 2020 due to challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, classes have typically started between August and September and ended in the summer months of April to May, which has proved challenging given the extreme heat the country experiences in those months.
This year alone, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) warned that 25 areas across the country, including Metro Manila, could experience a “danger” level heat index between 42 degrees Celsius to 51 degrees Celsius.
Before the official school year shift, DepEd has previously allowed schools to shift to modular distance learning to avoid risks to learners and teachers due to extreme heat. In 2024, DepEd Calabarzon issued a directive that gave school heads the authority to suspend face-to-face classes when the heat index reaches or exceeds 40 degrees Celsius.
The previous directive also listed several preventive measures for schools to adopt to mitigate extremely high temperatures in classrooms, such as:
“Ensure that classrooms are adequately ventilated; provide access to potable drinking water throughout school premises and encourage learners and teachers to bring water provision in tumblers or other appropriate containers… Consider adjusting schedules, if applicable, such as starting classes early and having shorter outdoor activities, allow lighter clothing during hot weather, ensuring learners and teachers are comfortable inside the school.”
In the same year, the National Parents-Teacher Association Philippines (NPTA) also offered their own solution to the heat, offering to donate additional electric fans to public schools to help cope with the heat.
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