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West Haven, Connecticut, 5,998 students in 9 schools

West Haven School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in West Haven, measured against West Haven's own big snow morning of 8.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will West Haven close tomorrow?

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

How West Haven calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“School Messenger system (messages sent to your landline, cell phone, or email from your child's school); call your school if you haven't already signed up.”
Delays/Cancellations

Making up a lost day

Added after June 14.

“Snow days will be added on after June 14 : If there are more than 5 snow days or school closings, the BOE reserves the right to amend this calendar.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 14, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

West Haven’s snow record

34inches of snow a winter
3.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.6with 4 in or more
8.4 ina big snow morning in West Haven: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.8Nov
5.7Dec
9Jan
11.5Feb
6.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13.5 in on January 26, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 65 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 11.3 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 West Haven

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
New Haven School DistrictNew Haven34 in1.6
Orange School DistrictOrange34 in1.6
Hamden School DistrictHamden27.7 in1.3
Milford School DistrictMilford28.7 in1.4
Regional High School District 05Woodbridge34 in1.6
East Haven School DistrictEast Haven25 in1.3
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • West Haven High School

Middle

  • Harry M. Bailey Middle School
  • Carrigan 5/6 Intermediate School

Elementary

  • Savin Rock Community School
  • Forest School
  • Alma E. Pagels School
  • Seth G. Haley School
  • Washington School
  • Edith E. Mackrille School
Questions

West Haven 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.