LaSalle Parish schools will have a rare five-day school week next week as the system will be open for business on Monday, March 10, for a weather make-up day.

All students will report to class next Monday and will attend school all week as the system makes up one of two days it was out of school in January due to weather events.

School was closed on January 21 and 22 when an arctic front brought snow and ice to the area making roads dangerous to drive. In the 2024-2025 school year calendar, the four-day school week does not have any weather days built into the calendar.

When schools were closed those two days in January, the system was forced to make those days up in order to reach the required number of teaching days in the school year.

Along with March 10, schools will also be opened on Monday, April 14, for the second weather make-up day. That week is the start of the Easter break when school is not in session Friday, April 18, so schools will still have a fourday week, just beginning on Monday instead of Tuesday.

The LaSalle Parish School Board is set to approve the 2025-2026 calendar next week at their regular meeting where the new calendar does have extra time included in the school day to permit one weather day closing without having to make it up.