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Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 1,525 students in 3 schools

Cape Elizabeth Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Cape Elizabeth, measured against Cape Elizabeth's own big snow morning of 5.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Cape Elizabeth close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Cape Elizabeth.
Ten winters of school mornings

Cape Elizabeth’s snow record

53.4inches of snow a winter
5.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.6with 4 in or more
5.2 ina big snow morning in Cape Elizabeth: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.1Nov
11.1Dec
17.4Jan
13.1Feb
7.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.4 in on December 18, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 63.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.1 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 Cape Elizabeth

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
South Portland Public SchoolsSouth Portland61 in3.76
Portland Public SchoolsPortland61 in3.7
Scarborough Public SchoolsScarborough53.4 in3.63
Westbrook Public SchoolsWestbrook61.3 in3.4
Falmouth Public SchoolsFalmouth61.3 in3.4
Gorham Public SchoolsGorham61.3 in3.45
The schools

3 schools

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

High

  • Cape Elizabeth High School

Middle

  • Cape Elizabeth Middle School

Elementary

  • Pond Cove Elementary
Questions

Cape Elizabeth 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.