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Taunton, Massachusetts, 8,018 students in 13 schools

Taunton School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Taunton, measured against Taunton's own big snow morning of 6.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Taunton close tomorrow?

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

How Taunton calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Lost days extend the year past the June 17 last day, which assumes no snow days, toward the 185th day on June 25.

“June 17: Last Day 1-11/Early Release (no Snow Days)”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 17, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. More than a week of school lost to winter storms; the year ran through the end of June.
    “After missing over a week of school due to winter snowstorms, Taunton Public School students will make up those days by staying in school through the end of June.”
    News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Taunton’s snow record

31.1inches of snow a winter
3.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
6.4 ina big snow morning in Taunton: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0Nov
4Dec
10.4Jan
10.8Feb
4.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 18.2 in on January 30, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 66.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4 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 Taunton

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Bridgewater-Raynham School DistrictBridgewater29 in1.45
Dighton-Rehoboth School DistrictNorth Dighton37.2 in1.6
Norton School DistrictNorton37.3 in1.8
Middleborough School DistrictMiddleborough29 in1.4
West Bridgewater School DistrictWest Bridgewater28 in1.1
Freetown-Lakeville School DistrictLakeville16.6 in0.6
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Taunton High
  • Taunton Alternative High School
  • Taunton Public Virtual Academy (TPVA)

Middle

  • Benjamin Friedman Middle
  • Joseph H Martin, East Taunton
  • John F Parker Middle

Elementary

  • James L. Mulcahey Elementary School
  • Elizabeth Pole
  • East Taunton Elementary, East Taunton
  • Joseph C Chamberlain
  • Edmund Hatch Bennett
  • H H Galligan

Other schools

  • Edward F. Leddy Preschool
Questions

Taunton 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.