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East Providence, Rhode Island, 5,314 students in 12 schools

East Providence School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in East Providence, measured against East Providence's own big snow morning of 3.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will East Providence close tomorrow?

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

How East Providence calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Added after the June 22 last day, on make-up days June 23 to 29.

Make up dates: Jun 23, Jun 24, Jun 25, Jun 28, Jun 29.

“22 or 179th day – Schools Close 23-29 - Make-up Days”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 22, 2027
District calendar

Read from East Providence’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is epschoolsri.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

East Providence’s snow record

32.8inches of snow a winter
2.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
3.9 ina big snow morning in East Providence: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.6Nov
4.2Dec
11Jan
12.6Feb
3.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 35.5 in on February 23, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 69.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.9 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 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 East Providence

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Providence School DistrictProvidence32.8 in1.1
Pawtucket School DistrictPawtucket45.3 in2.3
Cranston School DistrictCranston32.8 in1.1
Barrington School DistrictBarrington32.8 in1.1
North Providence School DistrictNorth Providence45.3 in2.3
Johnston School DistrictJohnston45.3 in2.3
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • East Providence High
  • East Providence Career Tech

Middle

  • Edward Martin Middle
  • Riverside Middle School, Riverside

Elementary

  • Waddington School, Riverside
  • Myron J. Francis Elementary, Rumford
  • Agnes B. Hennessey School
  • Kent Heights School
  • Silver Spring School
  • Orlo Avenue School
  • Emma G. Whiteknact School

Other schools

  • James R. D. Oldham School, Riverside
Questions

East Providence 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.