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Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 1,234 students in 4 schools

Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Jaffrey.
The Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative playbook

How Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative calls a snow day

When the call comes

Submitted to television and radio stations around 6:00 a.m.

“Delays and cancellations will be submitted to television and radio stations around 6:00 a.m.”
Source

How families hear

By local TV, radio, social media, the district website, email and phone call.

“Delays and cancellations will be submitted to television and radio stations around 6:00 a.m. and will be announced on the district's Facebook page and website. We will also send out a district-wide email and robo-call.”
Closing and Delays

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“When school is delayed two hours, students that ride the bus will be picked up two hours later than the regular pickup time. Elementary schools will begin at 10:30 a.m., while the middle/high school will begin at 9:30 a.m.”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Potential make-up days start June 15, the day after the proposed last day.

“14- Proposed Last Day of School K-Grade 11 15- Potential Make-Up 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 14, 2027
District calendar

Read from Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is sau47.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative’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 Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative: 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 under a mile 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 Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Contoocook Valley School DistrictPeterborough73.5 in3.9
Monadnock Regional School DistrictSwanzey55.1 in35
Keene School DistrictKeene55.1 in3
Milford School DistrictMilford51.8 in3.35
Amherst School DistrictAmherst51.8 in3.3
Hollis-Brookline Cooperative School DistrictHollis51.8 in3.3
The schools

4 schools

Every school in Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Conant Middle High School (H)

Middle

  • Conant Middle High School (M)

Elementary

  • Rindge Memorial School, Rindge
  • Jaffrey Grade School
Questions

Jaffrey-Rindge 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.