Classes for the 2024/2025 academic year in Infant, Primary and Secondary Education will begin on September 9 and end on June 20, 2025, according to a resolution published this Monday by the General Directorate of Administration of Centers, Schooling and Complementary Services of the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, which also dictates the instructions for the organization of the next academic year in non-university education centers in the archipelago.
The following day, September 10, classes will begin for Baccalaureate, Adult Baccalaureate, Grade D of the Vocational Training System and Adapted Vocational Training Programs, Elementary and Professional Music Education, Intermediate and Higher Grade Cycles of Plastic Arts and Design, Sports and Higher Artistic Education in Music, Design and Dramatic Art, as well as in the so-called Aula Mentor and Basic Computing, while on the 23rd they will begin for Distance English or That´s English!, preparation for the entrance exams to Training Cycles and for the free test to directly obtain the Graduate in Compulsory Secondary Education, as well as for the Special Regime Language Education.
In these cases, classes will end between May 8, 2025 (preparation for the entrance exams to Training Cycles) and June 20, with special mention to the second year of Baccalaureate and Adult Baccalaureate, where they will end on May 16 for the realization of the university entrance exams (the PAU is scheduled from June 4 to 7, in the ordinary call, and from July 2 to 4, in the extraordinary) and the second year of the Higher Grade Training Cycles of Vocational Training and Plastic Arts and Design, which will take place on May 29.
For its part, the calendar for the preparation of the university entrance exams for people over 25 years of age will be established once the corresponding dates are made public by each of the universities and, as of June 2, the classification and certification tests in Special Regime Language Education will begin.
Intensive day
As a novelty, in the levels of Infant Education and Primary Education, and in the Special Education Centers (CEE), classes will be taught in an intensive day regime in the period from the beginning of the school activity until September 13, 2024 and between June 16, 2025 and the end of the aforementioned activity (June 20).
During this intensive day, the schedule of the students will be reduced by one hour per day at the end of the day, making the corresponding adaptations for this purpose, according to the resolution published on the website of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands.
