Schools Where Students Attend Classes Fewer than 5 days per Week.

A new Data Point report, Shortened School Weeks in U.S. Public Schools, examines the characteristics of schools where students attend classes fewer than 5 days per week in the 2017–18 school year. The report highlights the following findings: While about 1.9 percent of U.S. public schools had a shortened school week, more than 10 percent of schools had a shortened school week in eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Shortened school weeks were more prevalent at combined schools (7.0 percent) than primary, middle, or high schools (0.9, 0.5, and 3.3 percent, respectively). A larger percentage of schools in rural areas (4.6 percent) than schools in towns, suburbs, and cities (2.2, 0.8, and 0.6 percent, respectively) had shortened school weeks. Schools in the West (5.3 percent) were more likely to have a shortened school week than schools in the Midwest or South (1.4 and 0.8 percent, respectively).