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Freeport, Maine, 2,089 students in 6 schools

Regional School Unit 05 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 05, measured against Regional School Unit 05's own big snow morning of 6.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 05 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Freeport.
The Regional School Unit 05 playbook

How Regional School Unit 05 calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website.

“The Superintendent or designee will provide notification of school closings, delays and early dismissals by means of media announcements, the district’s website, the district’s parent/staff notification system, or by other appropriate means.”

Making up a lost day

Storm make up days if needed, June 15 to 22.

Make up dates: Jun 15, Jun 16, Jun 17, Jun 21, Jun 22.

“LAST DAY OF SCHOOL-(if no snow days) HALF DAY - Storm Make-up days if needed: 6/15-22”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Dec 31
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 14, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The Board authorizes the Superintendent to cancel or close school for the day, delay opening or dismiss school early in the event of severe weather, hazardous travel or other emergencies which present threats to the safety of students and staff.”
Board policy

Read from Regional School Unit 05’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is rsu5.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 05’s snow record

68.6inches of snow a winter
7.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.9with 4 in or more
6.1 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 05: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 54% of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

1.5Nov
16.1Dec
17Jan
18.5Feb
12.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on December 24, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 102.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.4 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 Regional School Unit 05

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Yarmouth SchoolsYarmouth68.6 in3.9
Brunswick Public SchoolsBrunswick66.5 in3.8
School Administrative District 51Cumberland68.8 in3.42
School Administrative District 75Topsham66.5 in3.8
School Administrative District 15Gray68.8 in3.4
Falmouth Public SchoolsFalmouth61.3 in3.4
The schools

6 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 05 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Freeport High School

Middle

  • Freeport Middle School

Elementary

  • Durham Community School, Durham
  • Morse Street School
  • Mast Landing School
  • Pownal Elementary School, Pownal
Questions

Regional School Unit 05 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.