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Springfield, Massachusetts, 23,693 students in 66 schools

Springfield School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Springfield, measured against Springfield's own big snow morning of 4.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Springfield close tomorrow?

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

How Springfield calls a snow day

5 built in snow days

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

“Tentative End of School Year** (Date includes 5 snow days)”
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Making up a lost day

Schools close after 180 pupil days, so the June 25 tentative end moves earlier if snow days go unused.

“Schools will close after they have been in session for 180 pupil school days. Official end date and dismissal will be covered by bulletin.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 25, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Closed two days for a winter storm, reopening Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (WWLP story published January 27, 2026).
    “Springfield Public Schools will reopen on Wednesday after being closed for two days due to the recent winter storm.”
    News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Springfield’s snow record

26.1inches of snow a winter
3.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
4.1 ina big snow morning in Springfield: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.8Nov
5Dec
9Jan
8.4Feb
2.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14 in on January 26, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 44.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.5 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.6 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 Springfield

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
West Springfield School DistrictWest Springfield26.1 in1.1
Longmeadow School DistrictLongmeadow26.1 in1.1
East Longmeadow School DistrictEast Longmeadow26.1 in1.1
Agawam School DistrictFeeding Hills26.1 in1.1
Chicopee School DistrictChicopee26.1 in1.1All made up
Holyoke School DistrictHolyoke26.1 in1.1
The schools

66 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Springfield Central High
  • Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy
  • Springfield High School of Science and Technology
  • High School Of Commerce
  • John J Duggan Academy
  • The Springfield Renaissance School an Expeditionary Learning
  • Conservatory of the Arts

Middle

  • John F Kennedy Middle
  • Springfield Legacy Academy
  • Kiley Academy
  • STEM Middle Academy
  • Forest Park Middle
  • Kiley Prep

Elementary

  • German Gerena Community School
  • Rebecca M Johnson
  • Indian Orchard Elementary, Indian Orchard
  • Edward P. Boland School
  • Frederick Harris
  • Benjamin Swan Elementary
  • Sumner Avenue
  • Brightwood
  • Lincoln
  • Alfred G. Zanetti Montessori Magnet School
  • William N. DeBerry
  • Washington
  • White Street
  • Milton Bradley School
  • Mary O Pottenger
  • Glickman Elementary
  • Samuel Bowles
  • Alice B Beal Elementary
  • Glenwood
  • Daniel B Brunton
  • Mary A. Dryden Veterans Memorial School
  • Elias Brookings
  • Thomas M Balliet
  • Hiram L Dorman
  • Frank H Freedman
  • Kensington International School

Other schools

  • The Springfield Virtual School
Questions

Springfield 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.