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Newtown, Connecticut, 3,951 students in 7 schools

Newtown School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Newtown, measured against Newtown's own big snow morning of 5.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Newtown close tomorrow?

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

How Newtown calls a snow day

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“School Regular Hours 2-Hour Delay 3-Hour Delay 2-Hour Early Release 3-Hour Early Release All Elementary Schools 9:05-3:37 11:05-3:37 12:05-3:37”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Added after June 11, through June.

“Beyond the projected June 11 date, school cancellation days will be made up by adding days through June.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 12 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Newtown’s snow record

33.3inches of snow a winter
4.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.1with 4 in or more
5.9 ina big snow morning in Newtown: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 75% of the 166 Connecticut districts with a station record.

0Nov
6.7Dec
9.7Jan
11.7Feb
4.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.5 in on February 23, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 63 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6 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 Newtown

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Bethel School DistrictBethel44.8 in1.5
Monroe School DistrictMonroe34 in1.6
Danbury School DistrictDanbury44.8 in1.55
Brookfield School DistrictBrookfield31.3 in1.7
Oxford School DistrictOxford34 in1.6
Trumbull School DistrictTrumbull34 in1.6
The schools

7 schools

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

High

  • Newtown High School, Sandy Hook

Middle

  • Newtown Middle School
  • Reed Intermediate School

Elementary

  • Middle Gate Elementary School
  • Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy Hook
  • Head O'Meadow Elementary School
  • Hawley Elementary School
Questions

Newtown 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.