Hooksett School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When does Hooksett call a snow day?

Hooksett announces closings with as much advance notice as possible; a morning announcement comes between 5:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m, by its own published protocol.

Q: How does Hooksett 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 Hooksett?

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

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

June 17, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Hooksett get?

About 50.3 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 6.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 3.6 with 4 inches or more.

Q: How does the Hooksett snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Hooksett 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 Hooksett’s own big snow morning: 7 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.3 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Hooksett close tomorrow?

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

The Hooksett playbook

How Hooksett calls a snow day

When the call comes

With as much advance notice as possible; a morning announcement comes between 5:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.

“If an announcement is made the morning of the delay/cancellation, it will be given between 5:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.”

Source

How families hear

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

“If there is a delay or cancellation of school, a courtesy phone call, text and/or e-mail to each student’s home will be made by our Bright Arrow Emergency Response System.”

Hooksett School District Parent/Student Handbook 2026-2027 (Emergency Weather Conditions)

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Delayed openings will be 2 hours later than the regular start times. a. Starting time for Cawley will be at 9:40 a.m. b. Starting time for Underhill/Memorial will be at 11:00 a.m.”

Delay schedule

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 17, 2027

District calendar

Read from Hooksett’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is hooksett.sau15.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Hooksett’s snow record

50.3inches of snow a winter

6.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

3.6with 4 in or more

7 ina big snow morning in Hooksett: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

4.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 57% of the 176 New Hampshire districts with a station record.

0.9Nov

9.8Dec

14.8Jan

13.7Feb

9.4Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 19 in on March 14, 2018
Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 74.5 in
6 in mornings 1.5 a winter
1 in mornings 9.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.3 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 Hooksett

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Manchester School DistrictManchester	50.3 in	3.6
Pembroke School DistrictPembroke	59.4 in	3.1
Londonderry School DistrictLondonderry	51.3 in	2.8	5
Bedford School DistrictBedford	51.3 in	2.8	5
Goffstown School DistrictGoffstown	71.6 in	3.8
Bow School DistrictBow	71.6 in	3.8

The schools

3 schools

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

Middle

David R. Cawley Middle School

Elementary

Hooksett Memorial School
Fred C. Underhill School

Questions

Hooksett snow day questions

When does Hooksett call a snow day?

How does Hooksett announce a snow day?

How long is a delayed start in Hooksett?

When is the last day of school for Hooksett?

How much snow does Hooksett get?

How does the Hooksett snow day predictor work?

How does New Hampshire handle snow days?

More winter

More for New Hampshire snow days

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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.