BUFFALO, N.Y. — As the month of August comes to an end, the 2024-2025 school year is right around the corner.
2 On Your Side has created a list of the first day of school for districts in Western New York. Schools are organized by counties with charter and private schools at the bottom of the page.
Allegany County
Alfred-Almond — Thursday, 9/5
Andover — Tuesday, 9/3
Belfast — Tuesday, 9/3
Bolivar-Richburg — Thursday, 9/5
Canaseraga — Thursday, 9/5
Cuba-Rushford — Wednesday, 9/4
Fillmore — Tuesday, 9/3
Friendship — Tuesday, 9/3
Genesee Valley — Tuesday, 9/3
Scio — Thursday, 9/5
Wellsville — Tuesday, 9/3
Whitesville — Tuesday, 9/3
Cattaraugus County
Allegany-Limestone — Tuesday, 9/3
Cattaraugus-Little Valley — Tuesday, 9/3
Ellicottville — Thursday, 9/5
Franklinville — Thursday, 9/5
Hinsdale — Tuesday, 9/3
Olean — Wednesday, 9/4
Portville — Wednesday, 9/4
Randolph Central — Tuesday, 9/3
Salamanca — Tuesday, 9/3
West Valley — Wednesday, 9/4
Yorkshire-Pioneer — Wednesday, 9/4 (Return to Learn Orientation Tuesday, 9/3)
Chautauqua County
Bemus Point — Tuesday, 9/3
Brocton — Tuesday, 9/3
Cassadaga — Tuesday, 9/3
Chautauqua Lake — Thursday, 9/5
Clymer — Wednesday, 9/4
Dunkirk — Thursday, 9/5
Falconer — Tuesday, 9/3 (9/3 and 9/4 are half days for Temple Only)
Forestville — Tuesday, 9/3
Fredonia — Tuesday, 9/3
Frewsburg — Tuesday, 9/3
Jamestown — Wednesday, 9/4 (11:30 dismissal)
Panama — Wednesday, 9/4
Pine Valley — Tuesday, 9/3
Ripley — Tuesday, 9/3 (Pre-K - 6)
Sherman — Tuesday, 9/3
Silver Creek — Wednesday, 9/4
Southwestern — Tuesday, 9/3
Westfield — Tuesday, 9/3
Erie County
Akron — Thursday, 9/5
Alden — Tuesday, 9/3
Amherst — Tuesday, 9/3
Buffalo — Thursday, 9/5
Cheektowaga — Wednesday, 9/4
Cheektowaga-Sloan — Thursday, 9/5
Clarence — Tuesday, 9/3
Cleveland Hill — Wednesday, 9/4
Depew — Wednesday, 9/4
East Aurora — Thursday, 9/5
Eden — Thursday, 9/5
Frontier — Tuesday, 9/3
Grand Island — Wednesday, 9/4
Gowanda — Tuesday, 9/3
Hamburg — Thursday, 9/5
Holland — Thursday, 9/5
Iroquois — Wednesday, 9/4
Ken-Ton — Tuesday, 9/3
Lackawanna — Tuesday, 9/3
Lake Shore — Tuesday, 9/3
Lancaster — Tuesday, 9/3
Maryvale — Tuesday, 9/3
North Collins — Tuesday, 9/3
Orchard Park — Wednesday, 9/4
Springville-Griffith — Tuesday, 9/3
Sweet Home — Tuesday, 9/3
Tonawanda City — Tuesday, 9/3
West Seneca — Thursday, 9/5
Williamsville — Tuesday, 9/3
Genesee County
Alexander — Wednesday, 9/4
Batavia — Thursday, 9/5 (9th grade only returns Wednesday, 9/4)
Byron-Bergen — Wednesday, 9/4
Elba — Wednesday, 9/4
Le Roy — Wednesday, 9/4
Oakfield-Alabama — Wednesday, 9/4
Pavilion — Wednesday, 9/4
Pembroke — Wednesday, 9/4
Niagara County
Barker — Tuesday, 9/3
Lew-Port — Tuesday, 9/3 (first day for UP-K, K is Wednesday, 9/4)
Lockport — Wednesday, 9/4 (early dismissal K-6)
Newfane — Tuesday, 9/3
Niagara Falls — Thursday, 9/5
Niagara-Wheatfield — Tuesday, 9/3
North Tonawanda — Wednesday, 9/4
Royalton-Hartland — Tuesday, 9/3
Starpoint — Tuesday, 9/3
Wilson — Wednesday, 9/4
Orleans County
Albion — Wednesday, 9/4
Holley — Wednesday, 9/4
Kendall — Tuesday, 9/3
Lyndonville — Wednesday, 9/4
Medina — Thursday, 9/5
Wyoming County
Attica — Wednesday, 9/4
Letchworth — Wednesday, 9/4
Perry — Wednesday, 9/4
Warsaw — Tuesday, 9/3
Wyoming — Wednesday, 9/4
Charter Schools
Buffalo United — Thursday, 9/5
Elmwood Village — Thursday, 9/5
Persistence Preparatory Academy —
South Buffalo — Wednesday, 9/4
Tapestry — Tuesday, 9/3 -first day for 9th grade (Wednesday, 9/4 first day for all grades)
West Buffalo — Wednesday, 9/4
Western New York Maritime — Thursday, 9/5
Westminster Community — Tuesday, 9/3
Niagara Charter School — Thursday, 9/5
Private Schools
Southern Tier Catholic/Archbishop Walsh — Thursday, 9/5
Northern Chautauqua Catholic — Wednesday, 9/4
Notre Dame — Wednesday, 9/4
St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute — Wednesday, 9/4
Buffalo Academy Sacred Heart — Tuesday, 9/3
Buffalo Seminary, Tuesday, 9/3
Canisius — Tuesday, 9/3
Mount St. Mary Academy — Wednesday, 9/4
Nardin — Wednesday, 9/4
Ss Peter & Paul — Wednesday, 9/4
St. Gregory the Great — Tuesday, 9/3 (Grades 1-8) Wednesday, 9/4 (PK3, PK4, EK, K), Thursday, 9/5 (PK3)
Stanley G. Falk — Thursday, 9/4
