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Exeter, New Hampshire, 2,312 students in 2 schools

Exeter Regional Cooperative School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Exeter Regional Cooperative, measured against Exeter Regional Cooperative's own big snow morning of 6.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Exeter Regional Cooperative close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Exeter.
The Exeter Regional Cooperative playbook

How Exeter Regional Cooperative calls a snow day

How families hear

By radio and local TV.

“Radio and TV announcements will be made announcing a school closing or a school delay. A school DELAY may be updated to a CLOSING. Therefore, continue to listen to media announcements.”
School Closings - SAU 16 - Exeter NH

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Bus schedules will be delayed two hours for all concerned and schools will close at the usual time.”

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 22 to Feb 26
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from Exeter Regional Cooperative’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is sau16.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Exeter Regional Cooperative’s snow record

48inches of snow a winter
5.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.8with 4 in or more
6.8 ina big snow morning in Exeter Regional Cooperative: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.5Nov
8.7Dec
12.8Jan
16.4Feb
8.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16 in on March 14, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 85.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.8 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 Exeter Regional Cooperative

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Sanborn Regional School DistrictKingston52.6 in3.3
Winnacunnet Cooperative School DistrictHampton48 in2.8
Oyster River Cooperative School DistrictDurham48.4 in3.15
Timberlane Regional School DistrictPlaistow43.4 in1.7
Portsmouth School DistrictPortsmouth43.5 in2.1
Raymond School DistrictRaymond52.6 in3.3
The schools

2 schools

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

High

  • Exeter High School

Middle

  • Cooperative Middle School, Stratham
Questions

Exeter Regional Cooperative snow day questions

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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.