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Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 7,887 students in 16 schools

Pawtucket School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Pawtucket close tomorrow?

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

How Pawtucket calls a snow day

Virtual learning days

Pawtucket has virtual learning days in its winter plan.

“The following components must be included in the Virtual Instructional Day Plan along with supporting evidence. The maximum number of virtual instructional days approved is limited to five per school year.”
Source

Making up a lost day

Added after the June 18 last day, on make-up days June 22 to 25.

Make up dates: Jun 22, Jun 23, Jun 24, Jun 25.

“MAKE UP DAYS To be used in the event of needing to make up instructional days. June 22 – 25, 2027”
Source

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

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Snow closures plus a bell time error pushed the elementary year past its planned end.
    “Before the problem was discovered, the last day of school was expected to be June 18, including two makeup days for snow. (Had there been no weather-related cancellations, the last day of school was originally planned for June 16.)”
    News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Pawtucket’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 Pawtucket: 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 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 Pawtucket

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
East Providence School DistrictEast Providence32.8 in1.1
Providence School DistrictProvidence32.8 in1.1
North Providence School DistrictNorth Providence45.3 in2.3
Lincoln School DistrictLincoln33.9 in1.8
Johnston School DistrictJohnston45.3 in2.3
Cumberland School DistrictCumberland33.9 in1.85
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • William E. Tolman High
  • Charles E. Shea High School
  • Jacqueline M. Walsh School

Middle

  • Joseph Jenks Middle School
  • Lyman B. Goff Middle School
  • Samuel Slater Middle School

Elementary

  • Henry J. Winters School
  • Fallon Memorial School
  • Potter-Burns School
  • Nathanael Greene School
  • Cunningham School
  • Flora S. Curtis School
  • Curvin-McCabe School
  • Agnes E. Little School
  • Elizabeth Baldwin School
  • Francis J. Varieur School
Questions

Pawtucket 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.