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East Hartford, Connecticut, 6,410 students in 12 schools

East Hartford School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in East Hartford, measured against East Hartford's own big snow morning of 5.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will East Hartford close tomorrow?

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

How East Hartford calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website and social media.

“For up-to-date information regarding all schools during inclement weather, follow local media stations and East Hartford Public Schools on Twitter @EastHartfordPS. You can also check the district's website: www.easthartford.org or call the East Hartford Public Schools "HOTLINE" at 622-5131.”
2026-2027 Inclement Weather - English

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“All delayed openings will be a 2-hour delay.”

Making up a lost day

The year extends later into June for each day missed.

“Please remember that for each day we miss due to inclement weather, our school year will extend later into June for each of those days.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 8, 2027
District calendar

Read from East Hartford’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is easthartford.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

East Hartford’s snow record

24.8inches of snow a winter
2.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.7with 4 in or more
5.5 ina big snow morning in East Hartford: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0Nov
6.1Dec
7Jan
7.6Feb
3.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10 in on December 17, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 39.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.8 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 East Hartford

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Hartford School DistrictHartford24.8 in1.7
Windsor School DistrictWindsor24.8 in1.7
Wethersfield School DistrictWethersfield24.8 in1.7
Bloomfield School DistrictBloomfield24.8 in1.7
Glastonbury School DistrictGlastonbury24.8 in1.7
West Hartford School DistrictWest Hartford24.8 in1.7
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • East Hartford High School
  • Connecticut IB Academy

Middle

  • East Hartford Middle School
  • Sunset Ridge Middle School

Elementary

  • Dr. Thomas S. O'Connell School
  • Robert J. O'Brien School
  • Joseph O. Goodwin School
  • Governor William Pitkin School
  • Dr. Franklin H. Mayberry School
  • Dr. John A. Langford School
  • Anna E. Norris School
  • Silver Lane School
Questions

East Hartford 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.