Talk:Beacon Academy/@comment-27312496-20151129234737/@comment-26397825-20151209015736

So basically, the way it seems to work as Moridin said, is that winter happens (which seeing as it's and American show and therefore would use Northern Hemisphere seasons, would be January/the beginning of the year), then school starts in spring and they go right through to summer (so a good three/four months for schooling). Then they have the rest of summer off (probably about a month and a half to two months), then school starts again in autum and goes through to winter.

Conversely, they could have have two terms per semester (which is what my first high school did; you got a new timetable every semester as the seasons changed and classes changed around (mostly sporting classes so we didn't die of heat exhaustion in the summer), and there were two terms to a semester). So the first semester would be over spring and into summer, with maybe a week off in between terms and they are allowed to stay in the dorms if they want. Then they'd have summer break, and then the second semester would start, with a week off in between terms, and go for the length of autumn and into winter a little bit, then they'd have their winter break.