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Pelham, New Hampshire, 1,648 students in 3 schools

Pelham School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Pelham, measured against Pelham's own big snow morning of 4.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Pelham close tomorrow?

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

How Pelham calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

June 18 and June 21 to 24, 2027 are additional school days if needed, otherwise PD.

Make up dates: Jun 18, Jun 21, Jun 22, Jun 23, Jun 24.

“June 18-24 Additional Days of School (if needed) or Add'l PD”
Source

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

The board policy

“The Superintendent is authorized to close the schools or to dismiss students early in the event of hazardous weather or other emergencies that threaten the health or safety of students and personnel.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Pelham’s snow record

55.4inches of snow a winter
6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.5with 4 in or more
4.8 ina big snow morning in Pelham: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
5.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.4Nov
10.4Dec
15.4Jan
14.9Feb
11.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 24.3 in on March 14, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 97.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.9 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 Pelham

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Windham School DistrictWindham55.4 in2.5
Hudson School DistrictHudson55.4 in2.53
Salem School DistrictSalem37.5 in1.9
Nashua School DistrictNashua49.9 in2.5
Litchfield School DistrictLitchfield47.3 in3
Derry School DistrictDerry74.3 in3.9
The schools

3 schools

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

High

  • Pelham High School

Middle

  • Pelham Memorial School

Elementary

  • Pelham Elementary School
Questions

Pelham 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.