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Milford, Connecticut, 5,327 students in 13 schools

Milford School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Milford, measured against Milford's own big snow morning of 6.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Milford close tomorrow?

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

How Milford calls a snow day

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Normal Start ... Delayed Opening ... Jonathan Law 7:20 a.m. ... 9:20 a.m. ... Calf Pen Meadow 8:40 a.m. ... 10:40 a.m. ... MORNING PRESCHOOL ... Delayed Opening Cancelled”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Added to June, not beyond June 25, then deducted from April vacation beginning April 16.

“If additional days are required for emergency/snow closures, they will be added to June, but not go beyond June 25th. Should more days be needed, they will be deducted from the April 2027 vacation beginning with April 16th.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 12 to Feb 15
  • Last day June 8, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Snow day on February 23, 2026.
    “All Milford Public Schools and Adult Education programs have been canceled tomorrow, February 23.”
    District notice

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Milford’s snow record

28.7inches of snow a winter
2.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
6.7 ina big snow morning in Milford: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.6Nov
4.5Dec
8.3Jan
10.7Feb
4.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.2 in on February 1, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 55.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.5 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 Milford

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Orange School DistrictOrange34 in1.6
Stratford School DistrictStratford28.7 in1.4
Shelton School DistrictShelton34 in1.6
West Haven School DistrictWest Haven34 in1.6
Derby School DistrictDerby34 in1.6
Bridgeport School DistrictBridgeport28.7 in1.4
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Jonathan Law High School
  • Joseph A. Foran High School

Middle

  • West Shore Middle School
  • Harborside Middle School
  • East Shore Middle School

Elementary

  • Orange Avenue School
  • Orchard Hills School
  • Mathewson School
  • J. F. Kennedy School
  • Live Oaks School
  • Meadowside School
  • Calf Pen Meadow School
  • Pumpkin Delight School
Questions

Milford snow day questions

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More winter

More for Connecticut snow days

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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.