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Lynn, Massachusetts, 16,022 students in 27 schools

Lynn School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lynn, measured against Lynn's own big snow morning of 4.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lynn close tomorrow?

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

How Lynn calls a snow day

How families hear

By local TV, the district website and social media.

“District level communication will go out via School Messenger to all staff, families, and care takers. Communication to local media (television, website, and social media) will be made.”
Snow Emergency Information

Delayed openings

“The district may elect to delay school by one or two hours.”
Delay schedule

5 built in snow days

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

“185th Day per DESE regulations of 5 additional snow days”
Source

Making up a lost day

Snow days extend the year past the tentative 180th day on June 17, up to the 185th day on June 25.

“First and Tentative 180th day of school”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 17, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Lynn’s snow record

28.2inches of snow a winter
3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.5with 4 in or more
4.2 ina big snow morning in Lynn: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.6Nov
4.9Dec
9.5Jan
9.5Feb
2.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14.5 in on January 26, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 44.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.8 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 Lynn

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Saugus School DistrictSaugus28.2 in1.5
Swampscott School DistrictSwampscott36.5 in1.9
Revere School DistrictRevere35.6 in1.35
Lynnfield School DistrictLynnfield28.2 in1.5
Salem School DistrictSalem36.5 in1.9
Peabody School DistrictPeabody33.7 in1.55
The schools

27 schools

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

High

  • Lynn English High
  • Classical High
  • Fecteau-Leary Junior/Senior High School

Middle

  • Thurgood Marshall Mid
  • Breed Middle School
  • Pickering Middle

Elementary

  • Ingalls
  • E J Harrington
  • Cobbet Elementary
  • Wm P Connery
  • A Drewicz Elementary
  • Hood
  • Washington Elementary School
  • Edward A Sisson
  • Robert L Ford
  • Julia F Callahan
  • Tracy
  • Capt William G Shoemaker
  • Brickett Elementary
  • Sewell-Anderson
  • Aborn
  • Lincoln-Thomson
  • Lynn Woods
  • William R Fallon

Other schools

  • Lynn Vocational Technical Institute
  • Fredrick Douglass Collegiate Academy
  • Virginia Barton Early Childhood Center
Questions

Lynn snow day questions

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More winter

More for Massachusetts snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Massachusetts winter forecastThe season ahead for Massachusetts: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.