The Department of Education (DepEd) announced on Thursday that the opening of the Academic Year 2023-2024 in public schools is set this August 29.

"The Department of Education (DepEd) announces that opening of classes for School Year 2023-2024 in all public schools will be on August 29, 0223," it said in an advisory.

DepEd noted that private schools may open classes on any date starting "the first Monday of June but not later than the last day of August," pursuant to Republic Act No. 11480, also known as “An Act to lengthen the school calendar from two hundred (200) days to not more than two hundred twenty (220) class days”.