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Poland, Maine, 1,666 students in 5 schools

Regional School Unit 16 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 16, measured against Regional School Unit 16's own big snow morning of 6.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 16 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Poland.
The Regional School Unit 16 playbook

How Regional School Unit 16 calls a snow day

When the call comes

Families notified around 5:30am.

“For closings and delays due to weather or other emergencies, families will receive a notification via phone message, text, and/or email around 5:30am.”
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How families hear

By phone call, text message, email, social media and local TV.

“Closings and delays will be posted on Regional School Unit 16 Facebook and local news stations. You will receive voice, text, and/or email notifications via our ReachMyTeach message system.”
School Closings | About the District

Making up a lost day

Each storm day moves the projected last day (June 8, 2027) later by one day.

“**Storm days will move the last day forward”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Dec 31
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 8, 2027
District calendar

Read from Regional School Unit 16’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is rsu16.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 16’s snow record

69.7inches of snow a winter
8.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.9with 4 in or more
6.3 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 16: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

3.6Nov
14.7Dec
20.6Jan
18.2Feb
10.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on March 4, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 84.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.1 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 16

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Auburn Public SchoolsAuburn62.3 in3.73
Lewiston Public SchoolsLewiston62.3 in3.7
School Administrative District 15Gray68.8 in3.4
School Administrative District 17South Paris69.7 in3.9
School Administrative District 61Bridgton77.5 in5.14
Lisbon Public SchoolsLisbon62.3 in3.7
The schools

5 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 16 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Poland Regional H S

Middle

  • Bruce M Whittier Middle School

Elementary

  • Poland Community School
  • Elm Street School-Mechanic Falls, Mechanic Falls
  • Minot Consolidated School, Minot
Questions

Regional School Unit 16 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.