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Contoocook Valley School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Contoocook Valley, measured against Contoocook Valley's own big snow morning of 5.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Contoocook Valley close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Peterborough.
The Contoocook Valley playbook

How Contoocook Valley calls a snow day

How families hear

By radio, local TV and the district website.

“When the Superintendent decides it is necessary to delay opening or close any facility or school or cancel any school event, the Superintendent will initiate all related communications to the public by radio, television, website, or other available means.”

Making up a lost day

June 18, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29 and 30, 2027 are shaded as potential makeup days after the June 17 last day.

“Potential Makeup Days”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 22 to Feb 26
  • Last day June 17, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The Superintendent may delay the opening of schools upon determining that weather conditions appear extremely hazardous to operate school buses at the regular early morning hours, but that travel conditions will appreciably improve later in the morning.”
Board policy

Read from Contoocook Valley’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is conval.edu.

Ten winters of school mornings

Contoocook Valley’s snow record

73.5inches of snow a winter
7.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.9with 4 in or more
5.9 ina big snow morning in Contoocook Valley: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 69% of the 176 New Hampshire districts with a station record.

3.1Nov
15.3Dec
18.3Jan
16.5Feb
14.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 32.9 in on March 15, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 99.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.5 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 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 Contoocook Valley

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School DistrictJaffrey73.5 in3.9
Hillsboro-Deering Cooperative School DistrictHillsborough67 in3.9
Milford School DistrictMilford51.8 in3.35
Amherst School DistrictAmherst51.8 in3.3
Monadnock Regional School DistrictSwanzey55.1 in35
Goffstown School DistrictGoffstown71.6 in3.8
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Conval Regional High School

Middle

  • South Meadow School
  • Great Brook School, Antrim

Elementary

  • Peterborough Elementary School
  • Antrim Elementary School, Antrim
  • Greenfield Elementary School, Greenfield
  • Hancock Elementary School, Hancock
  • Pierce Elementary School, Bennington
  • Dublin Consolidated School, Dublin
  • Francestown Elementary School, Francestown
  • Temple Elementary School, Temple
Questions

Contoocook Valley snow day questions

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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.