Trustees of the Vicksburg Warren School District Thursday night elected District 1 Trustee Bryan Pratt to serve as president for the next 12 months.

Pratt, elected to the board in 2010, had previously served as vice president.

District 3 Trustee Jim Stirgus Jr. was elected vice president. Stirgus was first elected to the school board in 2008.

District 4 Trustee Joe Loviza was re-elected board secretary, a post he has held for the last two years. Loviza, elected in 2008, said at a joint meeting with city officials Wednesday that he does not intend to run for re-election to the school board when his term is up in 2014.

The board also approved the school calendar for the 2012-13 school year.

Students will begin school Monday, Aug. 6, and, barring any loss of days, attend until Thursday, May 23.

Report cards will be issued the weeks of Oct. 9, Jan. 7, March 18 and May 23. Vicksburg High School’s graduation is set for May 24, with Warren Central High’s following on May 25.

Christmas vacation will be Dec. 20 to Jan. 4, spring vacation March 11-15 and holidays observed Sept. 3 (Labor Day), Oct. 8 (Columbus Day), Nov. 12 (Veterans Day), Nov. 19-23 (Thanksgiving), Jan. 21 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), Feb. 18 (Presidents Day) and March 29 and April 1 (Good Friday and Easter).

Trustees also discussed with Dr. Elizabeth Swinford, superintendent, the possibility of shortening the Thanksgiving holiday and substituting a student day off on Election Day, Nov. 6.

District 2 Trustee Zelmarine Murphy pointed out that some of the district’s schools serve as polling places — Warren Central Junior High School, Sherman Avenue Elementary, Redwood Elementary and Bovina Elementary — and bring extra traffic and people onto school campuses.

Swinford said she would consider a change, which would be announced at a later meeting.

Murphy was also commended for her service as board president for the past two years.

“She has done a yeoman’s job, and I congratulate her,” Swinford said.

Swinford also recognized a number of student and faculty achievements including:

• Warren Central High School’s wind ensemble, which won a gold medal trophy at OrlandoFest music competition.

• Vicksburg Junior High School’s seventh-grade math team, which placed second in a Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics tournament.

• Sherman Avenue Elementary and Principal Ray Hume, awarded the Mississippi State University Value-Added Award for outstanding performance on 2011 MCT2 math and language arts tests.

• 18 Mississippi Scholars at VHS and 34 at WCHS.