---
id: "school_year"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["education", "datetime"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/school_year"
---

# School or academic year (`school_year`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

School or academic year that starts in one calendar year and ends in the next, written as the two years: 2025/26, 2025-2026 or 202526 (the Italian anno scolastico).

- Parent datatype: `year_range`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Education (education), Date and time (datetime)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{4}(?:\d{2}|[/-]\d{2}|[/-]\d{4})$
```

## Examples

- `2025/26`
- `2025-2026`
- `202526` — Anno scolastico 2025/26
- `2025` (invalid example) — One year: year

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `schoolyearbyfield` (field, `common/dateandtime.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Translations

- it: Anno scolastico
- de: Schuljahr
- ru: Учебный год

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_year>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...).

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/school_year.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/education/school_year.yaml>