Newhall Back-to-School Guide 2026-2027

Published by Michelle & Jon Dubner | Dubner Real Estate Group | Equity Union

If you are a Newhall family settling into the 2026-2027 school year, here is what we can confirm: William S. Hart Union High School District started Tuesday, August 11, 2026, and Newhall School District's elementary campuses started Thursday, August 13, 2026, as a minimum day. Jon and I hear this question every August from Santa Clarita families timing a move around the first bell, so we pulled the real dates, the two districts that actually serve Newhall, and the free family resources at the library and community center, all verified against the districts' own published calendars.

• William S. Hart Union High School District's 2026-2027 year started Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
• Newhall School District's elementary campuses started Thursday, August 13, 2026, as a minimum day.
• Newhall is served by two separate districts: Newhall School District (K-6) and William S. Hart Union High School District (7-12), whose namesake campus sits right on Newhall Avenue.
• The Old Town Newhall Library and the Newhall Community Center both run free or low-cost programs for kids, teens, and families year-round.

William S. Hart Union High School District, which covers grades 7 through 12 across the Santa Clarita Valley, started its 2026-2027 school year on Tuesday, August 11, 2026. According to the district's own published calendar, fall break follows on October 5, 2026, Thanksgiving break runs November 23 through 27, and winter break runs December 21 through January 8, 2027.

Newhall School District, which covers the elementary grades that feed into Hart District's middle and high schools, started its 2026-2027 year on Thursday, August 13, 2026. That first day was a minimum day with early dismissal. The district's own calendar shows school offices reopened for the year on August 3, and Back to School Night was held on August 12, the evening before students arrived.

Both calendars are set by the districts themselves and can shift slightly campus to campus, so if you are timing a move around the school calendar, it is worth a quick call to the specific school to confirm bell times and any campus-specific dates.

Newhall works the way most of the Santa Clarita Valley does: one district handles the younger grades, and a separate district handles the older ones. Newhall School District serves grades K through 6 (with transitional kindergarten and a junior kindergarten option for younger students) across ten elementary campuses that serve Santa Clarita families, including Newhall Elementary School right in town. William S. Hart Union High School District then takes over for grades 7 through 12 across the broader valley, and its founding, namesake campus, William S. Hart High School, sits at 24825 Newhall Avenue, inside Newhall itself. Founded in 1945, it is the oldest high school in the Santa Clarita Valley.

We are not going to tell you which specific address falls into which attendance boundary here, boundaries shift and every family's situation is different, so that is always worth confirming directly with the district before you count on it. What we can tell you is that Newhall is genuinely served by both districts, not adjacent to them.

The Old Town Newhall Library, part of the Santa Clarita Public Library system, sits at 24500 Main Street, Santa Clarita, CA 91321, phone (661) 259-0750. Hours are Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For students, the library offers free study rooms at the Old Town Newhall and Valencia branches, sized for two to six people and reservable for up to two hours a day with a library card. Cardholders also get access to Brainfuse Live Homework Help, a live online tutoring platform, along with kids' and teens' program calendars and the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten early literacy program for younger children. Every one of these is free with a library card, which is itself free to Santa Clarita residents.

The Newhall Community Center is at 22421 Market Street, Santa Clarita, CA 91321, phone (661) 286-4006, open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. It moved to this Market Street location in 2006 after opening in 1994, and it still runs the kind of multi-generational programming that makes a neighborhood feel like a neighborhood.

Toddlers have Play n' Learn, school-age kids have the After School Program (plus Summer Camps in season), and teens have their own Teen Experience programming. Adults and seniors get dedicated classes and drop-in access to basketball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, pickleball, and a mirrored dance room built for everything from dance to group workouts. Registration runs through SantaClarita.gov/Seasons, and the city's S.C.O.R.E. program offers scholarships for families who need help covering the cost.

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Jon and I see the same pattern every August. Families who are moving want to close and get settled before that first bell, not during the first week of school. If you are selling a home in Newhall with kids of your own, it is worth building your moving and showing schedule around the calendar dates above instead of around the general "back to school" idea, since Hart District and Newhall School District do not actually start on the same day. If you are buying, and school assignment matters to your decision, ask the specific district directly which schools serve a specific address before you make an offer. Do not rely on a listing description or a general area reputation for that answer.

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Michelle & Jon Dubner · Dubner Real Estate Group · Equity Union

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