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Bridgton, Maine, 1,640 students in 6 schools

School Administrative District 61 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in School Administrative District 61, measured against School Administrative District 61's own big snow morning of 7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will School Administrative District 61 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Bridgton.
The School Administrative District 61 playbook

How School Administrative District 61 calls a snow day

4 built in snow days

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

“After 4 traditional snow days, the district will transition to Remote Learning Days. If all 4 days are used, June 17th will be the last student day.”
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Remote learning days

School Administrative District 61 has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“After 4 traditional snow days, the district will transition to Remote Learning Days.”
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Making up a lost day

Snow days extend the year past June 11; with all 4 used, the last day is June 17, 2027.

“*June 11th will be the last student day if no snow days are used.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from School Administrative District 61’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is lakeregionschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

School Administrative District 61’s snow record

77.5inches of snow a winter
8.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
5.1with 4 in or more
7 ina big snow morning in School Administrative District 61: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 81% of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

1.4Nov
17.1Dec
18.1Jan
21.1Feb
15.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 24 in on December 30, 2016
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 133.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 8.5 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 School Administrative District 61

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Regional School Unit 16Poland69.7 in3.9
School Administrative District 72Fryeburg83.5 in4.8
School Administrative District 17South Paris69.7 in3.9
School Administrative District 15Gray68.8 in3.4
Regional School Unit 14Windham75.8 in4.1
Auburn Public SchoolsAuburn62.3 in3.73
The schools

6 schools

Every school in School Administrative District 61 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Lake Region High School, Naples

Middle

  • Lake Region Middle School, Naples

Elementary

  • Stevens Brook School
  • Songo Locks School, Naples
  • Crooked River Elementary, Casco

Other schools

  • Lake Region Vocational Center, Naples
Questions

School Administrative District 61 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.