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Falmouth, Maine, 1,987 students in 3 schools

Falmouth Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Falmouth close tomorrow?

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

How Falmouth calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Each canceled day adds one day after June 14; June 17 is the last day if 3 are used.

“14 - Last Student Day if 0 cancellations* 17 - Last Student Day if 3 cancellations are used ... *Each canceled day adds one day”
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

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Falmouth’s snow record

61.3inches of snow a winter
6.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.4with 4 in or more
5.2 ina big snow morning in Falmouth: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2Nov
13.1Dec
16.3Jan
14.6Feb
12Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.6 in on March 15, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 94.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.9 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 Falmouth

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
School Administrative District 51Cumberland68.8 in3.42
Portland Public SchoolsPortland61 in3.7
Yarmouth SchoolsYarmouth68.6 in3.9
Westbrook Public SchoolsWestbrook61.3 in3.4
South Portland Public SchoolsSouth Portland61 in3.76
Regional School Unit 14Windham75.8 in4.1
The schools

3 schools

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

High

  • Falmouth High School

Middle

  • Falmouth Middle School

Elementary

  • Falmouth Elementary School
Questions

Falmouth 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.