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Rumford, Maine, 1,803 students in 6 schools

Regional School Unit 10 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 10, measured against Regional School Unit 10's own big snow morning of 8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 10 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Rumford.
The Regional School Unit 10 playbook

How Regional School Unit 10 calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Storm days push the last day from June 9 as late as June 17.

“Last day of school depending on storm days-June 9th-17th”
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 9, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

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

Read from Regional School Unit 10’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is rsu10.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 10’s snow record

97.5inches of snow a winter
8.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.9with 4 in or more
8 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 10: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
11.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

6.4Nov
19.1Dec
23.5Jan
20.5Feb
21.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 27 in on December 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 130.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.8 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 10

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Regional School Unit 73Livermore Falls104.2 in5.6
Regional School Unit 09Farmington87.7 in4.9
School Administrative District 17South Paris69.7 in3.9
School Administrative District 52Turner77.2 in4.2
Regional School Unit 38Readfield72.9 in3.9
Regional School Unit 16Poland69.7 in3.9
The schools

6 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 10 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Mountain Valley High School
  • Buckfield Jr-Sr High School, Buckfield

Middle

  • Mountain Valley Middle School, Mexico

Elementary

  • Hartford-Sumner Elementary School, Sumner
  • Meroby Elementary School, Mexico
  • Rumford Elementary
Questions

Regional School Unit 10 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.