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School Administrative District 11 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in School Administrative District 11, measured against School Administrative District 11's own big snow morning of 6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will School Administrative District 11 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Gardiner.
The School Administrative District 11 playbook

How School Administrative District 11 calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

June 10 is the last day only if no emergency or snow days are used.

“LD – Last Day June 10 without Emergency/Snow Days”
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 10, 2027
District calendar

Read from School Administrative District 11’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is msad11.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

School Administrative District 11’s snow record

63.7inches of snow a winter
8.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.1with 4 in or more
6 ina big snow morning in School Administrative District 11: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
7.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 65% of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

1.7Nov
11.4Dec
17.4Jan
17.6Feb
12.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on March 15, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 91.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12 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 School Administrative District 11

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Regional School Unit 02Hallowell66 in3.7
Augusta Public SchoolsAugusta66 in3.7
Regional School Unit 04Wales72.9 in3.9
Regional School Unit 38Readfield72.9 in3.9
Regional School Unit 12Somerville70.5 in4.2
Lisbon Public SchoolsLisbon62.3 in3.7
The schools

6 schools

Every school in School Administrative District 11 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Gardiner Area High School

Middle

  • Gardiner Regional Middle School

Elementary

  • Helen Thompson School, West Gardiner
  • Laura E Richards School
  • Pittston-Randolph Consolidated School, Pittston
  • River View Community School, South Gardiner
Questions

School Administrative District 11 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.