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Saco, Maine, 2,806 students in 5 schools

Saco Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Saco, measured against Saco's own big snow morning of 5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Saco close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Saco.
The Saco playbook

How Saco calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website.

“SNOW DAY - ALL SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2”

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“2-HOUR DELAY - TUESDAY, JANUARY 27”

Making up a lost day

The June 11 last day is pending snow days.

“6/11/27 Last Day of School *Pending Snow Days”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Site alert closed all schools for snow on Tuesday, December 2, 2025; 2-hour delays were also posted for January 27 and March 6.
    “SNOW DAY - ALL SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2”
    District notice

Read from Saco’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is sacoschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Saco’s snow record

48.7inches of snow a winter
6.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.3with 4 in or more
5 ina big snow morning in Saco: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.2Nov
11.2Dec
15.1Jan
13.8Feb
6.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.8 in on February 13, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 86.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Saco

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Biddeford Public SchoolsBiddeford48.7 in3.3
Scarborough Public SchoolsScarborough53.4 in3.63
Regional School Unit 21Kennebunk56.9 in3.6
School Administrative District 06Buxton79 in4.35
South Portland Public SchoolsSouth Portland61 in3.76
Gorham Public SchoolsGorham61.3 in3.45
The schools

5 schools

Every school in Saco follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

Middle

  • Saco Middle School

Elementary

  • C K Burns School
  • Young School
  • Governor John Fairfield School

Other schools

  • Saco Pre-K
Questions

Saco 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.