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North Providence, Rhode Island, 3,543 students in 8 schools

North Providence School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in North Providence, measured against North Providence's own big snow morning of 5.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will North Providence close tomorrow?

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

How North Providence calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 18, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

North Providence’s snow record

45.3inches of snow a winter
4.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.3with 4 in or more
5.4 ina big snow morning in North Providence: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 81% of the 36 Rhode Island districts with a station record.

0.9Nov
6.7Dec
13.5Jan
15Feb
7.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16.5 in on March 14, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 77.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.5 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 North Providence

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Johnston School DistrictJohnston45.3 in2.3
Providence School DistrictProvidence32.8 in1.1
Pawtucket School DistrictPawtucket45.3 in2.3
Lincoln School DistrictLincoln33.9 in1.8
Cranston School DistrictCranston32.8 in1.1
East Providence School DistrictEast Providence32.8 in1.1
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • North Providence High

Middle

  • Dr. Edward Ricci School
  • Birchwood Middle School

Elementary

  • Stephen Olney School
  • James L. McGuire School
  • Greystone School
  • Joseph A. Whelan School
  • Centredale School
Questions

North Providence snow day questions

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More winter

More for Rhode Island 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.