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West Hartford, Connecticut, 9,261 students in 16 schools

West Hartford School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will West Hartford close tomorrow?

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

How West Hartford calls a snow day

How families hear

By radio, local TV and the district website.

“Information regarding closings or delayed openings can be obtained by listening to your local TV and radio stations, and by going to the West Hartford Public Schools website (www.whps.org).”
Emergency Information

Making up a lost day

Made up after the scheduled last day, June 8.

“The last day of school is scheduled for June 8. Any snow and/or emergency days will be made up after June 8 in order to provide 182 instructional days.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 8, 2027
District calendar

Read from West Hartford’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is whps.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

West Hartford’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 West Hartford: 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 7.7 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 West Hartford

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Hartford School DistrictHartford24.8 in1.7
Newington School DistrictNewington25.5 in1.4
Wethersfield School DistrictWethersfield24.8 in1.7
East Hartford School DistrictEast Hartford24.8 in1.7
Bloomfield School DistrictBloomfield24.8 in1.7
Windsor School DistrictWindsor24.8 in1.7
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • Conard High School
  • Hall High School

Middle

  • Sedgwick Middle School
  • King Philip Middle School
  • Bristow Middle School

Elementary

  • Charter Oak International Academy
  • Duffy School
  • Aiken School
  • Whiting Lane School
  • Wolcott School
  • Bugbee School
  • Norfeldt School
  • Webster Hill School
  • Braeburn School
  • Smith School
  • Morley School
Questions

West Hartford 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.