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The school year in UK starts at the beginning of september and finishes usually in July but that depends on what type of school it is private, academy, public.
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In the US the first day of school has historically been Tuesday after Labor Day. Labor Day is the first Monday in September. Then, for quite some time, many school districts were tampering with that tradition and moving the start date up a week or so, into late August. Suddenly, here just lately, they seem to all be going back to that age old "Tuesday after Labor Day."
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Gary s completely wrong about US schools. Although many have gone back to the Labor day standard, most still start in August. Usually either the last full week in August or the week prior. As a result they end in late May rather than early June (which is when they end if they start in September). Some schools in the US have decided to go to year round schooling. In this method the school stays open year round, but the students have different start dates and finishing dates. A third start in Aug/Sept and finish May/June; a third start Dec/Jan and finish Aug/Sept, and a third start May/June and finish Dec/Jan. This is usually done because the student population has outgrown the size of the school. Some US school districts have begun tinkering with all students being year round, and in this instance is meant to avoid the forgetfulness that arises from the "summer slump" or period of inactivity, it has not really caught on though. In general US colleges and universities start 1-3 weeks after most US primary/secondary schools and finish about 1-3 weeks earlier than primary/secondary schools. Of course the idea of a summer school, whether to pass previously failed classes or to get ahead, has been a semi-popular option unlike in the UK where it has not really caught on. While primary and secondary education starts in September, University and college education usually does not begin until October 1, or the week in which October 1 lies. And generally ends roughly in mid to late June.
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Schools in the US will start in August or September and end in May or early June. I can't speak about the entire school system in the UK, but the university I went to there started in late September and finished with classes in April. We finished our testing in early June.
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