Why are there no classes in the schools of Malaga on the Monday after Easter, April 6th?

The Easter holidays will last a bit longer this year for schoolchildren in Málaga city. This is due to the fact that the return to classrooms will not be the day after Easter Sunday, as is usual, but the return will be on Tuesday (April 7), a day later. According to the school calendar approved by the Provincial Council of Málaga, the 2025-26 academic year includes a total of 178 school days for Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, and Special Education, and 175 days for Compulsory Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training, Language Teaching, Artistic Teaching, and Adult Education.

For its scheduling, the school calendar takes into account non-school days that coincide with local holidays in each municipality, up to a maximum of two days. Thus, if these two local holidays fall outside the school calendar (many of them are in summer), the days established as non-school days are January 7 (the day after the Feast of the Epiphany) and the Monday after Easter, which this year is April 6. It is also stipulated that, in centers where only one local holiday coincides with a school day, that day and Easter Monday will be holidays, as is the case this year. Finally, in centers where both local holidays coincide with the school period, the two corresponding local holidays will be non-school days.

That is, given the proximity of the date, these days are when school centers in Málaga city remind families of students about the return to classrooms after Easter (and the delivery of the second trimester grade reports) but this circumstance was already scheduled before the start of the academic year.

This is the 2025-2026 school calendar provided by the Ministry of Educational Development and Vocational Training: