The Wrentham Elementary School Committee approved a school calendar for the 2012-2013 year at its meeting Tuesday night.
The calendar would start the school year on August 28, a few days before Labor Day.
District Superintendent Jeffrey Marsden said the schools have been starting their year in August recently because of issues with when the school year would end.
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"There were districts last year that were concerned their school years would extend through July," he said. "State law doesn't allow that."
With this calendar, Marsden said, the district would avoid that issue.
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"This would get us out on June 17 instead of June 21, as we would if we started after Labor Day," he said.
Marsden's proposal had no school on November 6, the day of the Massachusetts U.S. Senate election.
"As we saw in the Scott Brown special election, it can be a circus," he said. "It doesn't make sense to have the students or staff here."
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