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Dorchester County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Dorchester, measured against Dorchester's own big snow morning of 4.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Dorchester close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Cambridge.
Ten winters of school mornings

Dorchester’s snow record

9.5inches of snow a winter
1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.5with 4 in or more
4.8 ina big snow morning in Dorchester: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0Nov
0.8Dec
6.4Jan
1.5Feb
0.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.5 in on January 6, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 17.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 11.6 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 Maryland rule

How Maryland counts a lost day

Maryland requires at least 180 school days and 1,080 hours within 10 months, with days of at least 3 hours. On a county board's application showing it tried to comply, the State Board may shorten the year when severe weather or a disaster prevented normal attendance, without cutting state or local funding.

The Maryland rules in the agency’s own words, and every Maryland district

Next door

Districts near Dorchester

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Talbot County Public SchoolsEaston9.5 in0.5
Caroline County Public SchoolsDenton9.3 in0.5
Calvert County Public SchoolsPrince Frederick8.3 in0.4
Wicomico County Public SchoolsSalisbury8.1 in0.6
Queen Annes County Public SchoolsCentreville11.5 in0.6
St. Marys County Public SchoolsLeonardtown9.2 in0.73
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Cambridge-South Dorchester High School
  • North Dorchester High School, Hurlock
  • Dorchester County Career and Technology Center

Middle

  • Mace's Lane Middle School
  • North Dorchester Middle School, Hurlock

Elementary

  • Maple Elementary School
  • Sandy Hill Elementary
  • Hurlock Elementary School, Hurlock
  • Warwick Elementary School, Secretary
  • Choptank Elementary School
  • South Dorchester School, Church Creek
  • Vienna Elementary School, Vienna

Other schools

  • Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Center
Questions

Dorchester 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.