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Bristol, Connecticut, 7,774 students in 13 schools

Bristol School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Bristol, measured against Bristol's own big snow morning of 8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Bristol close tomorrow?

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

How Bristol calls a snow day

When the call comes

Every attempt to reach a decision by 5:00 a.m.

“Every effort is made to inform our families as early as possible, but due to the unpredictable nature of severe weather events, a decision may be made in the morning. The District makes every attempt to reach a decision by 5:00 a.m.”
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How families hear

By phone call, text message, email, the district website, social media, local TV and radio.

“ParentSquare: BPS utilizes the ParentSquare mass notification system. ParentSquare allows administrators to notify families by phone, text and/or email.”
Inclement Weather

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“If BPS delays the start of school due to weather conditions, the school day will begin two hours later than the school's regular start time, and dismiss at the usual time.”
Delay schedule

A snow day is a day off

Bristol closes rather than going remote.

“If the District closes schools due to weather conditions, students will have a traditional snow day. There will be no in-person learning, and state law does not allow remote learning on snow days to count toward the 180-day minimum.”
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Making up a lost day

Added to the end of the year, no later than June 30.

“Students must attend school 181 days. With no snow days the last day of school will be June 11th. Each snow day will advance the last day of school forward to no later than June 30.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from Bristol’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is bristol.k12.ct.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Bristol’s snow record

28.4inches of snow a winter
4.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.2with 4 in or more
8 ina big snow morning in Bristol: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 78% of the 166 Connecticut districts with a station record.

1.3Nov
5.4Dec
7.9Jan
8.9Feb
4.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14 in on January 27, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 43.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.1 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 Bristol

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Wolcott School DistrictWolcott28.4 in2.2
Plainville School DistrictPlainville25.5 in1.4
Plymouth School DistrictTerryville28.4 in2.2
Southington School DistrictSouthington45.7 in1.7
Farmington School DistrictFarmington37.6 in2.4
Regional School District 10Burlington37.6 in2.4
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Bristol Central High School
  • Bristol Eastern High School
  • Bristol Arts and Innovation Magnet School

Middle

  • Chippens Hill Middle School
  • Northeast Middle School

Elementary

  • Greene-Hills School
  • West Bristol School
  • South Side School
  • Ivy Drive School
  • Stafford School
  • Ellen P. Hubbell School
  • Mountain View School

Other schools

  • Edgewood Pre-K Academy
Questions

Bristol 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.