{"id":208494,"date":"2026-08-03T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208494"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:34:09","slug":"start-dates-for-local-and-area-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/03\/start-dates-for-local-and-area-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Start dates for local and area schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It won\u2019t long before local and area children head back to school. Here are the start dates for public schools around the area, plus Delphos St. John\u2019s and Vantage Career Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Crestview Local Schools \u2013 Wednesday, August 19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delphos City Schools \u2013 Wednesday, August 19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delphos St. John\u2019s \u2013 Wednesday, August 19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lincolnview Local Schools\u2013 Wednesday, August 19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parkway Local Schools \u2013 Wednesday, August 19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spencerville Local Schools \u2013 Wednesday, September 2 for grades 1-12; Thursday, September 3 for kindergarten girls only; Friday, September 4 for kindergarten boys only; Tuesday, September 8 for all kindergarten students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Van Wert City Schools \u2013 Wednesday August 19 for grades 1-12; Wednesday, August 26 for preschool and kindergarten;&nbsp; Thursday, August 27 for pre-K.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vantage Career Center &#8211; Thursday, August 20<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wayne Trace Local Schools \u2013 Tuesday, August 18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff It won\u2019t long before local and area children head back to school. Here are the start dates for public schools around the area, plus Delphos St. John\u2019s and Vantage Career Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-youth"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 03:49:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208496,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208494\/revisions\/208496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}