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Bridgeport, Connecticut, 19,591 students in 36 schools

Bridgeport School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Bridgeport, measured against Bridgeport's own big snow morning of 6.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Bridgeport close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport playbook

How Bridgeport calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Added in June if needed to reach 180 instructional days.

“*Any school days lost due to closures will be added in June, if needed, to ensure 180 instructional days.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 11 to Feb 15
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Closed Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026 after the Sunday and Monday snowstorm.
    “Bridgeport Public Schools will be closed on Tuesday, Feb. 24, as Connecticut continues to dig out from the Sunday/Monday snow storm, district officials announced.”
    News report

Read from Bridgeport’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is bridgeportedu.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Bridgeport’s snow record

28.7inches of snow a winter
2.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
6.7 ina big snow morning in Bridgeport: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.6Nov
4.5Dec
8.3Jan
10.7Feb
4.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.2 in on February 1, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 55.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.6 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The Connecticut rule

How Connecticut counts a lost day

Connecticut requires at least 180 days and 900 hours of actual school work, counting no more than 7 hours a day.

The Connecticut rules in the agency’s own words, and every Connecticut district

Next door

Districts near Bridgeport

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Fairfield School DistrictFairfield28.7 in1.4
Stratford School DistrictStratford28.7 in1.4
Trumbull School DistrictTrumbull34 in1.6
Milford School DistrictMilford28.7 in1.4
Westport School DistrictWestport29 in1.85
Monroe School DistrictMonroe34 in1.6
The schools

36 schools

Every school in Bridgeport follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Central High School
  • Warren Harding High School
  • Bassick High School
  • Information Technology & Software Engineering Magnet High Sc
  • Biotechnology Research & Zoological Studies Magnet High Scho
  • Aerospace/Hydrospace Engineering and Physical Sciences Magne
  • Bridgeport Military Academy

Elementary

  • Blackham School
  • Cesar Batalla School
  • Geraldine Johnson School
  • Read School
  • Luis Munoz Marin School
  • John Winthrop School
  • Barnum School
  • Jettie S. Tisdale School
  • Columbus School
  • James J. Curiale School
  • Interdistrict Discovery Magnet School
  • Park City Magnet School
  • Roosevelt School
  • Madison School
  • High Horizons Magnet School
  • Black Rock School
  • Geraldine Claytor Magnet Academy
  • Waltersville School
  • Multicultural Magnet School
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar School
  • Classical Studies Academy
  • Bryant School
  • Beardsley School
  • Hallen School
  • Thomas Hooker School
  • Edison School
  • Hall School

Other schools

  • Wilbur Cross School
  • A.B. Skane Center
Questions

Bridgeport snow day questions

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.