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Hampden, Maine, 2,170 students in 7 schools

Regional School Unit 22 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 22, measured against Regional School Unit 22's own big snow morning of 4.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 22 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Hampden.
The Regional School Unit 22 playbook

How Regional School Unit 22 calls a snow day

3 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “storm days”.

“178* Student Days ... (* 3 storm days included)”
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 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from Regional School Unit 22’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is rsu22.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 22’s snow record

68.7inches of snow a winter
8.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.5with 4 in or more
4.4 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 22: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.9Nov
13Dec
19.6Jan
16.6Feb
13Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17.3 in on March 14, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 118.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12.8 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 22

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Brewer Public SchoolsBrewer67.8 in3
Bangor Public SchoolsBangor67.8 in3
Hermon Public SchoolsHermon67.8 in3
Regional School Unit 25Bucksport68.7 in3.5
Regional School Unit 34Old Town65.5 in2.9
School Administrative District 64East Corinth65.9 in3.2
The schools

7 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 22 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Hampden Academy

Middle

  • Reeds Brook Middle School
  • Samuel L Wagner Middle School, Winterport

Elementary

  • Earl C McGraw School
  • Leroy H Smith School, Winterport
  • George B Weatherbee School

Other schools

  • Newburgh Elementary School, Newburgh
Questions

Regional School Unit 22 snow day questions

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More winter

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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.