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Stratford, Connecticut, 6,743 students in 13 schools

Stratford School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Stratford close tomorrow?

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

How Stratford calls a snow day

How families hear

By radio, local TV and the district website.

“School closings will be announced over the following radio stations and on the following web sites.”
School Closing and Inclement Weather Schedules | Second Hill Lane Elementary School

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“REGULAR SCHOOL DAY SCHEDULE Grades K-6 8:45 AM - 3:30 PM ... INCLEMENT WEATHER DELAYED OPENING SCHEDULE Grades K-6 10:45 AM - 3:30 PM”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Added to the end of the year; past June 25, taken from April recess starting April 12.

“All inclement weather days will be added to the end of the school year. Should the number of inclement weather days extend beyond June 25, 2027, days will be taken from the April recess beginning with Monday, April 12, 2027.”
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 10, 2027
District calendar

Read from Stratford’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is stratfordk12.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Stratford’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 Stratford: 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 2 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 Stratford

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Bridgeport School DistrictBridgeport28.7 in1.4
Milford School DistrictMilford28.7 in1.4
Fairfield School DistrictFairfield28.7 in1.4
Trumbull School DistrictTrumbull34 in1.6
Shelton School DistrictShelton34 in1.6
Orange School DistrictOrange34 in1.6
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Stratford High School
  • Bunnell High School

Middle

  • David Wooster Middle School
  • Harry B. Flood Middle School

Elementary

  • Second Hill Lane School
  • Stratford Academy - Johnson House
  • Eli Whitney School
  • Nichols School
  • Wilcoxson School
  • Chapel School
  • Franklin School
  • Lordship School

Other schools

  • Stratford Academy - Victoria Soto School
Questions

Stratford 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.