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Lewiston, Maine, 5,147 students in 8 schools

Lewiston Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lewiston, measured against Lewiston's own big snow morning of 5.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lewiston close tomorrow?

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

How Lewiston calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Storm days past the calendar's allowance are made up on weekends, from vacation, or by extending the year, as the School Committee decides.

“Storm days lost in excess of the number provided for in the school year calendar will be made up by conducting classes on the weekend, rescheduling or shortening scheduled vacation periods, or postponing the close of the school year, as determined by the School Committee.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 14, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The Superintendent is authorized to cancel school or close school(s) for the day, delay school opening, or dismiss school(s) early in the event of severe weather, hazardous travel conditions, or when any emergency endangers the health and welfare of students and staff.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Lewiston’s snow record

62.3inches of snow a winter
7.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.7with 4 in or more
5.1 ina big snow morning in Lewiston: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.9Nov
14.3Dec
20.3Jan
13.9Feb
10.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16.8 in on December 24, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 87.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.6 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 Lewiston

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Auburn Public SchoolsAuburn62.3 in3.73
Lisbon Public SchoolsLisbon62.3 in3.7
Regional School Unit 16Poland69.7 in3.9
School Administrative District 52Turner77.2 in4.2
Regional School Unit 04Wales72.9 in3.9
School Administrative District 15Gray68.8 in3.4
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Lewiston High School

Middle

  • Lewiston Middle School

Elementary

  • Robert V. Connors Elementary School
  • Montello School
  • Raymond A. Geiger Elementary School
  • Thomas J McMahon Elementary Sch
  • Farwell Elementary School

Other schools

  • Lewiston Regional Technology Ctr
Questions

Lewiston 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.