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Glastonbury, Connecticut, 5,674 students in 8 schools

Glastonbury School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Glastonbury close tomorrow?

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

How Glastonbury calls a snow day

When the call comes

Generally finalized and communicated between 5:00 and 6:00 am.

“Morning decisions are generally finalized and communicated between 5:00 and 6:00 am to give families adequate time to prepare.”
Source

How families hear

By the district website, email, text message, the district app and local TV.

“Families select their ParentSquare notification preferences for email, text, and app notifications in their account settings. We generally do not make early morning phone calls. Broadcast on local news stations, including channels 3, 8, 61, and 30.”
Closings and Delays

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“In the morning, a standard school delay time of 2 hours will occur in the event of severe weather. Morning preschool is cancelled when school is delayed.”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

School year extended in June up to 4 days, then taken from Spring Recess beginning April 12.

“If weather or other emergencies require the closing of school, the lost days will be made up by extending the school year in June up to 4 days. If additional days are needed, they will be taken from the Spring Recess, beginning April 12.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 14, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The superintendent consults special reports and local officials, starting as early as 3 or 4 am, to gather real-time data.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Glastonbury’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 Glastonbury: 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 3.1 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 Glastonbury

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Wethersfield School DistrictWethersfield24.8 in1.7
Rocky Hill School DistrictRocky Hill24.8 in1.7
East Hartford School DistrictEast Hartford24.8 in1.7
Hartford School DistrictHartford24.8 in1.7
Manchester School DistrictManchester24.8 in1.7
Cromwell School DistrictCromwell25.5 in1.4
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Glastonbury High School

Middle

  • Smith Middle School
  • Gideon Welles School

Elementary

  • Nayaug Elementary School, South Glastonbury
  • Hopewell School, South Glastonbury
  • Hebron Avenue School
  • Buttonball Lane School
  • Naubuc School
Questions

Glastonbury 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.