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Manchester, New Hampshire, 11,980 students in 21 schools

Manchester School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Manchester, measured against Manchester's own big snow morning of 7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Manchester close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Manchester.
The Manchester playbook

How Manchester calls a snow day

When the call comes

Usually the morning of the storm; the day before only when the storm is certain.

“In rare cases when the likelihood of a storm is certain, we will announce the decision the day before. More often, we announce the decision the morning of the storm event.”
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How families hear

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

“Emergency notifications: Sent to staff and families by email, text message and phone call”
School Closings and Delays

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Two-hour delay: All schools open two hours later than normal”
Delay schedule

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 3, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 22 to Feb 26
  • Last day June 16, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Manchester’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 Manchester: 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 4.1 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 Manchester

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Bedford School DistrictBedford51.3 in2.85
Londonderry School DistrictLondonderry51.3 in2.85
Hooksett School DistrictHooksett50.3 in3.6
Goffstown School DistrictGoffstown71.6 in3.8
Merrimack School DistrictMerrimack47.3 in3
Pinkerton Academy School DistrictDerry74.3 in3.9
The schools

21 schools

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

High

  • Manchester Memorial High School
  • Manchester Central High School
  • Manchester West High School
  • Manchester School of Technology (High School)

Middle

  • Middle School At Parkside
  • Hillside Middle School
  • Southside Middle School
  • Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle School

Elementary

  • Weston Elementary School
  • Northwest Elementary School
  • Beech Street School
  • McDonough School
  • Jewett School
  • Green Acres School
  • Parker-Varney School
  • Smyth Road School
  • Henry Wilson Elementary School
  • Webster School
  • Bakersville School
  • Gossler Park School
  • Highland-Goffes Falls School
Questions

Manchester snow day questions

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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.