Records in the live release
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Release 2026-11-13, 13 November 2026. Its fingerprint: af3889dd2fc470e0237ad8386e64fee0bd0496b6789d0173df70ce7ca109979c (what that is).
Datasets·UM-328·Government and society·Early access
School terms, from the Gazette
The four terms for public schools each year, as the Minister of Basic Education's gazetted calendar sets them, with the special school holidays.
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What it holds
In more detail
Each school year's four terms for public schools in every province (opening and closing days, weeks, days and school days, as the calendar's summary prints them), its special school holidays and the public holidays it lists, from the Minister of Basic Education's notices under the National Education Policy Act in the Government Gazette, read from GPW's copies. With a calendar feed.
How far it reaches
The four terms for public schools in every province, school years 2028, as the gazetted calendar's summary prints them (GG 55619 (2026-10-23)), with its special school holidays and the public holidays it lists. Other years: the Minister gazettes each calendar about a year ahead; GPW's online archive goes back to 2018, and those notices are queued (scripts/datasets/w1b-gpw-queue.mjs).
How often it changes
Annual
The nightly GPW queue reads Basic Education Gazettes from September to December; an amended calendar is its own notice, never written over the earlier one.
Where the figures come from
Government Printing Works (Government Gazette).
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Measured accuracy
Not measured yet. How we measure it.
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Get it
Through the API
/v1/datasets/school-terms/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.
All of it at once (Parquet)
Being built. The list.
For data portals
Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.
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