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Franklin West Supervisory Union Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Franklin West, measured against Franklin West's own big snow morning of 3.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Franklin West close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Fairfax.
The Franklin West playbook

How Franklin West calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

All missed or snow days are added after the tentative June 11, 2027 last day.

“*June 11 is the tentative last day of school... All missed/snow days will be added to the end of the school year.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 22 to Mar 2
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The Superintendent or his/her designee will also have the authority to delay school opening or dismiss early due to inclement weather or other emergencies.”
Board policy

Read from Franklin West’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is fwsu.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Franklin West’s snow record

75.3inches of snow a winter
7.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.9with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Franklin West: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
5.6Nov
14.1Dec
19.8Jan
20.5Feb
10.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.6 in on February 8, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 87 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.9 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 Vermont rule

How Vermont counts a lost day

Vermont requires at least 175 student attendance days a year, with the school board setting the length of the day. A school closed for a cause beyond the board's control may petition the State Board for a waiver, filed within 10 days of each closing and by June 15; if granted the district is treated as having met the requirement.

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

Next door

Districts near Franklin West

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Milton Supervisory DistrictMilton75.3 in1.9
Maple Run Supervisory DistrictSaint Albans60.7 in2
Colchester Supervisory DistrictColchester78.8 in3.2
Essex-Westford Supervisory DistrictEssex Junction78.8 in3.2
Mount Mansfield Unified Union School DistrictJericho121.2 in4.8
Burlington Supervisory DistrictBurlington78.8 in3.2
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Bellows Free Academy Middle/High School (Fairfax)

Elementary

  • Georgia Elementary & Middle School, Saint Albans
  • Bellows Free Academy Elementary (Fairfax)
  • Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge
Questions

Franklin West 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.