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Farmington, Maine, 2,251 students in 8 schools

Regional School Unit 09 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 09, measured against Regional School Unit 09's own big snow morning of 6.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 09 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Farmington.
The Regional School Unit 09 playbook

How Regional School Unit 09 calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:00 a.m.

“Because we need approximately three hours to get all our kids into school, a decision will need to be made by 5:00 a.m.”
Source

How families hear

By local TV and radio.

“Local News: We'll contact the Daily Bulldog, WKTJ FM 93, and the following TV stations:”
School Closure Information

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Here are the possible decisions: School will go on as scheduled. 1-hour delay. 2-hour delay. No school.”

Making up a lost day

The June 9 last day is set before any snow days are added.

“6/9 - Last Student Day Erly Rls PK- 12 *Before Snow Days”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Dec 31
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 20
  • Last day June 9, 2027
District calendar

Read from Regional School Unit 09’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is mtbluersd.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 09’s snow record

87.7inches of snow a winter
9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.9with 4 in or more
6.2 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 09: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
15.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 74% of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

5.8Nov
19.1Dec
19.9Jan
21.6Feb
15.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 22 in on March 24, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 127.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.4 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 09

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Regional School Unit 73Livermore Falls104.2 in5.6
Regional School Unit 38Readfield72.9 in3.9
Regional School Unit 18Oakland63.9 in3
School Administrative District 54Skowhegan76.2 in4.95
Regional School Unit 10Rumford97.5 in4.9
Waterville Public SchoolsWaterville63.9 in3
The schools

8 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 09 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Mt Blue High School

Middle

  • Mt Blue Middle School

Elementary

  • W G Mallett School
  • Cascade Brook School
  • Academy Hill School, Wilton
  • Cape Cod Hill Elem School, New Sharon
  • Gerald D Cushing School, Wilton

Other schools

  • Foster Regional Applied Tech Ctr
Questions

Regional School Unit 09 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.