Concord School District Snow Day Predictor, NH

Q: When does Concord call a snow day?

Concord announces closings by 5:30 a.m.; messages usually sent before 6 a.m, by its own published protocol.

Q: How does Concord announce a snow day?

By phone call, text message, email and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

Q: How long is a delayed start in Concord?

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

Q: When is the last day of school for Concord?

June 15, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Concord get?

About 59.4 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 6.2 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 3.1 with 4 inches or more.

Q: How does the Concord snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Concord through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Concord’s own big snow morning: 4.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Concord close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Concord.

The Concord playbook

How Concord calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:30 a.m.; messages usually sent before 6 a.m.

“We will make a decision by 5:30 a.m. whether we have a 2-hour delay or closing for the day.”

Source

How families hear

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

“Once the decision is made, the district will send a message via Parent Square, using a phone call, text message and email. We will also notify WMUR-TV.”

Concord School District - School Cancellation Procedures

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“We will make a decision by 5:30 a.m. whether we have a 2-hour delay or closing for the day.”

Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

June 15, 2027 is the last day; five added days would make it June 22.

Make up dates: Jun 16, Jun 17, Jun 18, Jun 21, Jun 22.

“June 15 ......................... Last Day of School for Students (Including 5 days would make the last day June 22)”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 31, 2026
Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
February break Feb 22 to Feb 26
Last day June 15, 2027

District calendar

Read from Concord’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is sau8.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Concord’s snow record

59.4inches of snow a winter

6.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

3.1with 4 in or more

4.5 ina big snow morning in Concord: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

5.7school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

2Nov

13Dec

15.6Jan

14.9Feb

11.4Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 25.6 in on December 17, 2020
Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 87.9 in
6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
1 in mornings 10.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.3 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.

The New Hampshire rule

How New Hampshire counts a lost day

New Hampshire requires 180 days or the required hours: 450 in kindergarten, 945 in grades 1 to 6 and 990 in grades 7 to 12. Lost time must be rescheduled with added hours before a district can ask for a waiver of the hours requirement.

The New Hampshire rules in the agency’s own words, and every New Hampshire district

Next door

Districts near Concord

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Bow School DistrictBow	71.6 in	3.8
Merrimack Valley School DistrictPenacook	54.8 in	3.6
Pembroke School DistrictPembroke	59.4 in	3.1
Hooksett School DistrictHooksett	50.3 in	3.6
Goffstown School DistrictGoffstown	71.6 in	3.8
Manchester School DistrictManchester	50.3 in	3.6

The schools

7 schools

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

High

Concord High School

Middle

Rundlett Middle School

Elementary

Beaver Meadow School
Christa McAuliffe School
Abbot-Downing School
Mill Brook School
Broken Ground School

Questions

Concord snow day questions

When does Concord call a snow day?

How does Concord announce a snow day?

How long is a delayed start in Concord?

When is the last day of school for Concord?

How much snow does Concord get?

How does the Concord snow day predictor work?

How does New Hampshire handle snow days?

More winter

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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.