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I recall this occurring with college registration websites ~25 years ago. In retrospect, I suspect it was so students registering online didn't have an advantage over those registering in person (at the time, home internet access was common but nowhere near 100%).

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I had this happen at a local community College but it also was where you would access your grades. Shut down over winter break, was awkward to tell my internship coordinator that I couldn't access the website for 2 weeks to get my grades because the website was closed over break... Fricken crazy (and they where using a pretty popular platform, this was not some home spun system)

My guess is that it was hosted on a physical server on campus, and they didn't want to pay IT to support it during winter break.

It is probably easier to just close it down to avoid handling all the angry phone calls if it would happen to have an issue during the break.

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