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Brunswick, Maine, 2,406 students in 4 schools

Brunswick Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Brunswick, measured against Brunswick's own big snow morning of 5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Brunswick close tomorrow?

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

How Brunswick calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website.

“Brunswick Schools are closed today, Wednesday, January 7, 2026.”

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Due to current road conditions, school will be delayed for two hours today, Monday, February 3.”

Making up a lost day

June 14 is the last day only if there are no cancellations.

“6/14 - last student day (if no cancellations)”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 14, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Homepage alerts closed schools on December 2, January 7 and January 26, the last for an impending storm and significant snowfall.
    “Due to the impending storm and significant snowfall, all schools in Brunswick will be closed tomorrow, Monday, January 26th, 2026.”
    District notice
  • 2024 to 2025. Homepage alerts: 2-hour delay February 3, no school February 6 and February 13, 2025.
    “NO SCHOOL All Brunswick Schools will be closed on Thursday, February 13, 2025.”
    District notice

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Brunswick’s snow record

66.5inches of snow a winter
8.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.8with 4 in or more
5 ina big snow morning in Brunswick: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
8.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 53% of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

1.9Nov
13.5Dec
18.8Jan
17.3Feb
12.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 21 in on February 13, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 99.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.4 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 Maine rule

How Maine counts a lost day

Maine requires a 180 day school year with at least 175 days of instruction. The Commissioner may waive the minimum days on a school board's written application, but only after the district has tried every reasonable way to make the days up.

The Maine rules in the agency’s own words, and every Maine district

Next door

Districts near Brunswick

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
School Administrative District 75Topsham66.5 in3.8
Regional School Unit 01Bath66.5 in3.8
Regional School Unit 05Freeport68.6 in3.9
Lisbon Public SchoolsLisbon62.3 in3.7
Yarmouth SchoolsYarmouth68.6 in3.9
School Administrative District 51Cumberland68.8 in3.42
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Brunswick High School

Middle

  • Brunswick Jr High School

Elementary

  • Kate Furbish Elementary School
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary
Questions

Brunswick 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.