United States · secondary
Leaving US public school districts? Take your work with you.
K-12 public school districts in the United States using Microsoft 365 for Education.
Typical account-closure pattern
K-12 districts typically deactivate accounts within 30 days of graduation, sometimes faster. Practice varies by district — some districts preserve student data for 90+ days under records-retention rules, others remove access immediately.
What to take with you
The work most often missed once a school Microsoft 365 account closes:
- OneDrive — all your files, all your folders.
- Class OneNote notebooks — your own section group.
- Personal OneNote notebooks — exam revision, mind maps.
- Outlook email attachments worth keeping.
- Co-authored SharePoint documents.
How mydocs.school helps
Sign in once with your existing Microsoft 365 account. The dashboard shows everything attached to your account — OneDrive, personal OneNote, every class OneNote. One click for each, or one click for the lot. Files stream straight to your browser as a zip.
For per-workload guidance, see the workload export guides. For the full leaver picture, see /leaving-school.
Caveat
The closure policy described above is typical for US public school districts as a category. Individual institutions inside this category may have different timelines — alumni licensing variations, longer retention windows for specific course types, shorter windows for contracted teaching staff. Treat this page as a starting point and verify the specific date with your institution's IT team.