School Administrative District 17 Snow Day Predictor

By text message, phone call, social media, local TV and radio, and on the district’s own closings page.

June 10, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 69.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 11.5 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 8.1 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 3.9 with 4 inches or more.

13 inches on March 4, 2023, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 11.5 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 84.9 inches.

School Administrative District 17 averages 3.9 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 54 percent of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for South Paris through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against School Administrative District 17’s own big snow morning: 6.3 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 11.5 miles away.

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.