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Sanford, Maine, 3,265 students in 6 schools

Sanford Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Sanford, measured against Sanford's own big snow morning of 7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Sanford close tomorrow?

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

How Sanford calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Added at the end of the year, June 11 and June 14 to 17, as needed.

Make up dates: Jun 11, Jun 14, Jun 15, Jun 16, Jun 17.

“June 11,14-17 Storm Days as Needed (5 Days)”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“If the weather becomes extremely hazardous, or on occasion of exceptional public importance, the Superintendent or his/her designee is empowered to close the schools.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Sanford’s snow record

63.2inches of snow a winter
7.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.7with 4 in or more
7 ina big snow morning in Sanford: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
5.7school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
2.3Nov
14.9Dec
15.5Jan
16.7Feb
10.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17 in on April 5, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 104.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.4 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 Sanford

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
School Administrative District 57Waterboro63.2 in3.7
School Administrative District 60North Berwick56 in35
Regional School Unit 21Kennebunk56.9 in3.6
Wells-Ogunquit Community School DistrictWells56.9 in3.6
Biddeford Public SchoolsBiddeford48.7 in3.3
School Administrative District 06Buxton79 in4.35
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Sanford High School

Middle

  • Sanford Middle School

Elementary

  • Margaret Chase Smith
  • Carl J Lamb School, Springvale
  • Sanford Pride Elementary School

Other schools

  • Sanford Regional Technical Center
Questions

Sanford 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.