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Waterbury, Connecticut, 18,956 students in 29 schools

Waterbury School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Waterbury, measured against Waterbury's own big snow morning of 6.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Waterbury close tomorrow?

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

How Waterbury calls a snow day

When the call comes

Every attempt to reach a decision by 5:30 a.m.

“Every effort is made to inform our families as early as possible, but due to the unpredictable nature of severe weather events, a decision may be made in the morning. The District makes every attempt to reach a decision by 5:30 a.m.”
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How families hear

By phone call, text message, email, the district website, social media, local TV and radio.

“ParentSquare: WPS utilizes the ParentSquare mass notification system. ParentSquare allows administrators to notify families by phone, text and/or email.”
Inclement Weather Information

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“If WPS delays the start of school due to weather conditions, the school day will begin two hours later than the school's regular start time, and dismiss at the usual time. Morning buses will run two hours later than normal. Morning preschool will be cancelled.”
Delay schedule

A snow day is a day off

Waterbury closes rather than going remote.

“students will have a traditional snow day. There will be no in-person learning, and state law does not allow remote learning on snow days to count toward the 180-day minimum.”
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Making up a lost day

Added onto the end of the school calendar.

“Any such days will be added onto the end of the school calendar.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Waterbury’s snow record

26.5inches of snow a winter
3.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.7with 4 in or more
6.5 ina big snow morning in Waterbury: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.9Nov
4.2Dec
7Jan
7.7Feb
5.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.5 in on March 8, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 56.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5 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.

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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 Waterbury

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Regional School District 15Middlebury26.5 in1.7
Naugatuck School DistrictNaugatuck26.5 in1.7
Watertown School DistrictWatertown28.4 in2.2
Regional School District 16Prospect26.5 in1.7
Wolcott School DistrictWolcott28.4 in2.2
Regional School District 14Woodbury26.5 in1.7
The schools

29 schools

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

High

  • Crosby High School
  • John F. Kennedy High School
  • Wilby High School
  • Waterbury Arts Magnet School
  • Waterbury Career Academy

Middle

  • Michael F. Wallace Middle School
  • West Side Middle School
  • North End Middle School

Elementary

  • Rotella Interdistrict Magnet School
  • Wendell L. Cross School
  • Maloney Interdistrict Magnet School
  • H. S. Chase School
  • B. W. Tinker School
  • Gilmartin School
  • Reed School
  • Bunker Hill School
  • Margaret M. Generali Elementary School
  • Carrington School
  • Driggs School
  • Woodrow Wilson School
  • F. J. Kingsbury School
  • Duggan School
  • Sprague School
  • Walsh School
  • Washington School
  • Hopeville School
  • Bucks Hill School
  • Regan School
  • Roberto Clemente International Dual Language School
Questions

Waterbury 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.