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Coventry, Rhode Island, 4,133 students in 8 schools

Coventry School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Coventry, measured against Coventry's own big snow morning of 8.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Coventry close tomorrow?

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

How Coventry calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Inclement weather days in June after the June 11 last day, dates not yet set.

“6/11 Last day of School/180th 6/?-6/? Inclement Weather Days”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from Coventry’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is coventryschools.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Coventry’s snow record

33.6inches of snow a winter
3.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
8.7 ina big snow morning in Coventry: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 75% of the 36 Rhode Island districts with a station record.

0.8Nov
4.5Dec
12.4Jan
9.2Feb
6.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17 in on March 14, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 70.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 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 Rhode Island rule

How Rhode Island counts a lost day

Rhode Island requires 180 days, or the equivalent of at least 1,080 school hours under a commissioner approved calendar.

The Rhode Island rules in the agency’s own words, and every Rhode Island district

Next door

Districts near Coventry

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
West Warwick School DistrictWest Warwick34.3 in1.74
Cranston School DistrictCranston32.8 in1.1
Johnston School DistrictJohnston45.3 in2.3
North Kingstown School DistrictNorth Kingstown21.7 in1.4
Warwick School DistrictWarwick32.8 in1.14
Providence School DistrictProvidence32.8 in1.1
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Coventry High School
  • The Regional Career and Tech

Middle

  • Alan Shawn Feinstein MS of Cov

Elementary

  • Washington Oak School
  • Tiogue School
  • Hopkins Hill School
  • Western Coventry School
  • Blackrock School
Questions

Coventry 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.