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Braintree, Massachusetts, 5,237 students in 10 schools

Braintree School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Braintree close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Braintree.
The Braintree playbook

How Braintree calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call.

“the Superintendent will notify all parents and staff with a recorded message through the automated phone system.”
Transportation (Snow Procedures)

5 built in snow days

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

“6/25 Last Day of School if 5 snow days are used 1/2 Day - Students & Staff”
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Making up a lost day

Added to the end of the year after June 17, up to June 25.

“6/18 Juneteenth - if School is Still in Session due to snow days.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Dec 31
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 17, 2027
District calendar

Read from Braintree’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is braintreeschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Braintree’s snow record

56.4inches of snow a winter
4.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.7with 4 in or more
7 ina big snow morning in Braintree: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 82% of the 291 Massachusetts districts with a station record.

0.9Nov
8.1Dec
17.5Jan
17.6Feb
10Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 21.4 in on January 30, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 92.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.7 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 Braintree

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Randolph School DistrictRandolph56.4 in2.7
Holbrook School DistrictHolbrook31.2 in1.8
Quincy School DistrictQuincy34.1 in1.4
Weymouth School DistrictWeymouth34.1 in1.45
Milton School DistrictMilton56.4 in2.7
Stoughton School DistrictStoughton56.4 in2.7
The schools

10 schools

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

High

  • Braintree High

Middle

  • East Middle School
  • South Middle School

Elementary

  • Highlands
  • Hollis
  • Liberty
  • Archie T Morrison
  • Mary E Flaherty School
  • Monatiquot Kindergarten Center
  • Donald Ross
Questions

Braintree snow day questions

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More winter

More for Massachusetts snow days

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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.