Academic Calendar
This is the Kern Community College District's official Academic Calendar for Cerro Coso Community College.
For a friendlier version of the dates you need to know, please visit our Important Dates page.
2025-2026
August 2025
- August 8 Summer Session Ends
- August 21-22 Flex Days
- August 23 Fall Semester Begins
September 2025
- September 1 Labor Day Holiday
October 2025
November 2025
- November 11 Veteran's Day Holiday
- November 27 Thanksgiving Holiday
- November 28 Thanksgiving Recess
December 2025
- December 6-13 Final Exams
- December 13 End of Fall Semester
- December 15 - January 16 Winter Recess
- December 22 - January 2 Winter Break
- December 24 & 25 Christmas Recess & Christmas Holiday
January 2026
- January 1 New Year's Day Holiday
- January 16 Flex Day
- January 17 Instruction Begins, Spring
- January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday
February 2026
- February 13 Lincoln Day Holiday
- February 16 Washington Day Holiday
March 2026
- March 30 - April 4 Spring Recess (tentative dates, subject to change)
April 2026
- April 3 Spring Recess Holiday
- April 5 Easter
May 2026
- May 8 - ESCC Commencement
- May 9 - May 15 Final Exams, Spring
- May 15 End of Spring Semester
- May 15 Commencement
- *May 18: 12 week Summer Session Begins
- May 25 Memorial Day Holiday
June 2026
- *June 8: 8 and 10 week Summer Session Begins
- June 19 - Juneteenth Holiday
July 2026
- July 3 Independence Day Holiday
August 2026
- August 7 Summer Session Ends
*Summer session classes may run any dates within the twelve (12) weeks noted.
Previous Calendars
