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Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 5,124 students in 8 schools

Fitchburg School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Fitchburg, measured against Fitchburg's own big snow morning of 6.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Fitchburg close tomorrow?

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

How Fitchburg calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

Read from Fitchburg’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is fitchburg.k12.ma.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Fitchburg’s snow record

48.1inches of snow a winter
5.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3with 4 in or more
6.1 ina big snow morning in Fitchburg: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 88% of the 291 Massachusetts districts with a station record.

1.8Nov
9.2Dec
13.1Jan
13.3Feb
8.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14.5 in on February 2, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 64.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.3 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 Fitchburg

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Leominster School DistrictLeominster48.1 in35
Lunenburg School DistrictLunenburg71.5 in4.2
Ashburnham-Westminster School DistrictAshburnham66.7 in2.8
North Middlesex School DistrictTownsend52.8 in2.6
Gardner School DistrictGardner56.3 in2.4
Ayer-Shirley School DistrictAyer40.5 in2.1
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Fitchburg High
  • Goodrich Academy

Middle

  • Memorial Middle School
  • Arthur M Longsjo Middle School

Elementary

  • McKay Elementary School
  • Reingold Elementary
  • Crocker Elementary

Other schools

  • South Street Early Learning Center
Questions

Fitchburg 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.