Skip to content
Enfield, Connecticut, 4,826 students in 8 schools

Enfield School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Enfield, measured against Enfield's own big snow morning of 4.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Enfield close tomorrow?

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

How Enfield calls a snow day

How families hear

By email, local TV, radio and the district website.

“You can visit the site and sign up for email notification of school closings, delays and early dismissals on the district homepage at www.enfieldschools.org .”
Emergency Notification System - Enfield Street Elementary School

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Regular Hours Two Hour Delay Three Hour Delay ... High School (9-12) 7:25 - 2:05 9:25 - 2:05 10:25 - 2:05”
Delay schedule

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 9, 2027
District calendar

Read from Enfield’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is enfieldschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Enfield’s snow record

26.1inches of snow a winter
3.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
4.1 ina big snow morning in Enfield: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.8Nov
5Dec
9Jan
8.4Feb
2.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14 in on January 26, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 44.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.5 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3 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.

Advertisement
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 Enfield

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Suffield School DistrictSuffield26.1 in1.1
Windsor Locks School DistrictWindsor Locks38.9 in1.9
East Windsor School DistrictEast Windsor38.9 in1.9
Somers School DistrictSomers26.1 in1.1
Ellington School DistrictEllington38.9 in1.9
South Windsor School DistrictSouth Windsor24.8 in1.7
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Enfield High School

Middle

  • John F. Kennedy Middle School

Elementary

  • Henry Barnard School
  • Eli Whitney School
  • Hazardville Memorial School
  • Prudence Crandall School
  • Enfield Street School
  • Edgar H. Parkman School
Questions

Enfield snow day questions

Advertisement
More winter

More for Connecticut snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Connecticut winter forecastThe season ahead for Connecticut: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.