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Danbury, Connecticut, 12,126 students in 19 schools

Danbury School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Danbury, measured against Danbury's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Danbury close tomorrow?

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

How Danbury calls a snow day

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“If Danbury Public Schools are operating on a 2-hour or 3-hour delay while Shepaug Valley School is on its regular schedule, transportation will operate according to the Danbury delay schedule.”

5 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “emergency closing days”.

“This is a 185 day calendar, including 5 emergency closing days. If these days are not used, they will be deducted in June, with the earliest possible closing set June 8th.”
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Making up a lost day

Days beyond the 5 built in are added after June 15, then taken from April Recess after June 30.

“Any additional days lost by emergency closing will be added after June 15th. After June 30th, days may be deducted from the end of April Recess.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 15, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Schools closed for the February 22 to 23, 2026 snowstorm.
    “Danbury Snowstorm Parking Ban Extended, Schools Closed: UPDATE”
    News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Danbury’s snow record

44.8inches of snow a winter
3.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.5with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Danbury: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.4Nov
8.2Dec
12.2Jan
14.5Feb
7.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16.1 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 77.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Danbury

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Bethel School DistrictBethel44.8 in1.5
Brookfield School DistrictBrookfield31.3 in1.7
New Fairfield School DistrictNew Fairfield29.7 in1.7
Newtown School DistrictNewtown33.3 in2.1
Ridgefield School DistrictRidgefield24.7 in1.3
New Milford School DistrictNew Milford29.7 in1.7
The schools

19 schools

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

High

  • Danbury High School

Middle

  • Broadview Middle School
  • Rogers Park Middle School
  • Westside Middle School Academy

Elementary

  • Park Avenue School
  • Shelter Rock School
  • Stadley Rough School
  • Ellsworth Avenue School
  • Hayestown Avenue School
  • King Street Primary School
  • Pembroke School
  • South Street School
  • Morris Street School
  • Western CT Academy of International Studies Elementary Magne
  • King Street Intermediate School
  • Mill Ridge Primary School
  • Great Plain School

Other schools

  • DPS Early Childhood Center at Granville
  • DPS Early Childhood Center
Questions

Danbury snow day questions

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More winter

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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.