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Athol, Massachusetts, 1,596 students in 4 schools

Athol-Royalston School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Athol-Royalston, measured against Athol-Royalston's own big snow morning of 6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Athol-Royalston close tomorrow?

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

Athol-Royalston’s snow record

42.9inches of snow a winter
5.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.7with 4 in or more
6 ina big snow morning in Athol-Royalston: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 97% of the 291 Massachusetts districts with a station record.

2.6Nov
6.9Dec
10.9Jan
12.7Feb
7.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on March 15, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 68.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.6 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 Massachusetts rule

How Massachusetts counts a lost day

Massachusetts requires a 185 day calendar, at least 180 days actually held, and 900 hours for elementary or 990 hours for secondary students. Every day lost through March 31 is made up with full rescheduled days; after March 31, days are made up until 180 or the scheduled 185th day, whichever comes first.

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

Next door

Districts near Athol-Royalston

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Narragansett School DistrictBaldwinville66.7 in2.8
Winchendon School DistrictWinchendon61.7 in3.4
Gardner School DistrictGardner56.3 in2.4
Quabbin School DistrictBarre49.6 in2.4
Ashburnham-Westminster School DistrictAshburnham66.7 in2.8
Greenfield School DistrictGreenfield40.1 in3
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Athol High

Middle

  • Athol-Royalston Middle School

Elementary

  • Athol Community Elementary School
  • Royalston Community School, Royalston
Questions

Athol-Royalston 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.