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Oakland, Maine, 2,756 students in 8 schools

Regional School Unit 18 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 18, measured against Regional School Unit 18's own big snow morning of 5.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 18 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Oakland.
The Regional School Unit 18 playbook

How Regional School Unit 18 calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 14, 2027
District calendar

Read from Regional School Unit 18’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is rsu18.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 18’s snow record

63.9inches of snow a winter
8.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3with 4 in or more
5.5 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 18: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
7.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.9Nov
13.1Dec
17.1Jan
15.9Feb
12.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 22.5 in on February 14, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 98 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.7 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 18

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Waterville Public SchoolsWaterville63.9 in3
Winslow SchoolsWinslow63.9 in3
School Administrative District 49Fairfield63.9 in3
School Administrative District 54Skowhegan76.2 in4.95
Regional School Unit 38Readfield72.9 in3.9
Augusta Public SchoolsAugusta66 in3.7
The schools

8 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 18 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Messalonskee High School

Middle

  • Messalonskee Middle School
  • China Middle School, China

Elementary

  • James H Bean School, Sidney
  • China Primary School, China
  • Belgrade Central School, Belgrade
  • Ralph M Atwood Primary School
  • Williams Elementary School
Questions

Regional School Unit 18 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.