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Quincy, Massachusetts, 9,695 students in 19 schools

Quincy School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Quincy, measured against Quincy's own big snow morning of 4.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Quincy close tomorrow?

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

How Quincy calls a snow day

How families hear

By local TV, radio, phone call, email and text message.

“QPS school officials will use SchoolMessenger to deliver a single, clear message to parents or guardians by telephone, cell phone, email, or text message in any combination.”
School Cancellation/Delayed Openings - Quincy Public Schools

Making up a lost day

Every cancelled day is made up, pushing the June 23 last day out to as late as June 30 after five.

Make up dates: Jun 24, Jun 25, Jun 28, Jun 29, Jun 30.

“Please note that all cancelled school days must be made up and the last day of school may be adjusted by one or more days.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 9, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 23, 2027
District calendar

Read from Quincy’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is quincypublicschools.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Quincy’s snow record

34.1inches of snow a winter
2.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
4.6 ina big snow morning in Quincy: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.3Nov
4.3Dec
11.9Jan
10.4Feb
6.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 23 in on January 29, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 60.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.9 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 Quincy

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Weymouth School DistrictWeymouth34.1 in1.45
Braintree School DistrictBraintree56.4 in2.75
Milton School DistrictMilton56.4 in2.7
Hingham School DistrictHingham34.1 in1.4
Randolph School DistrictRandolph56.4 in2.7
Boston School DistrictRoxbury34.3 in1.5
The schools

19 schools

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

High

  • North Quincy High
  • Quincy High

Middle

  • Central Middle
  • Atlantic Middle
  • South West Middle School
  • Point Webster Middle
  • Broad Meadows Middle

Elementary

  • Lincoln-Hancock Community School
  • Clifford H Marshall Elementary
  • Montclair
  • Snug Harbor Community School
  • Squantum
  • Beechwood Knoll Elementary
  • Francis W Parker
  • Charles A Bernazzani Elementary
  • Merrymount
  • Wollaston School
  • Atherton Hough

Other schools

  • Amelio Della Chiesa Early Childhood Center
Questions

Quincy 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.