Is There School on Election Day? Yes - Duval County Classes Are in Session Tuesday as Polls Open 7 to 7
'Is there school on election day' is the No. 2 trending search in the United States this morning, and for Duval County families the answer is yes: the district's official 2026-27 calendar lists no Election Day closure, so Tuesday is a regular school day - with polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for parents voting before or after the school run.
The question is being asked everywhere this morning. On the Google Trends US snapshot read by the desk this run (Trending Soup, updated 12:20 UTC Nov. 2), 'is there school on election day' ranks No. 2 in the United States, with 'voting near me' at No. 5 and 'what time do polls open on election day' at No. 6 - families are searching the school question and the voting question together, on the same morning, because for many of them the two schedules collide.
For Duval County, the school answer is on the district's own calendar. Duval County Public Schools' official academic calendar for 2026-2027, read by the desk this run, lists the November closures as Veterans Day on Nov. 11 and the Thanksgiving break, Nov. 23-27 - there is no closure listed for Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, which makes it a regular school day for Duval students. The side-by-side Duval and St. Johns calendar guide read this run shows the same November pattern for St. Johns County: off Nov. 11 and Thanksgiving week, in session on Election Day.
The voting answer runs alongside it, and the desk has carried it in its Election Day guides (SQ-20261102-009 and SQ-20261101-063): Duval polls open Tuesday at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m., every voter votes at their assigned precinct, and a vote-by-mail ballot counts only if the Supervisor of Elections has received it by 7 p.m. Tuesday. A regular school day does not change any of that - it just means the family plan for Tuesday starts with the school run, and the precinct fits before or after it.
