Maple Run Supervisory District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How does Maple Run announce a snow day?

By email, phone call, text message and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

Q: When is the last day of school for Maple Run?

June 15, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Saint Albans get?

About 60.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 8.2 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 6.3 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 2 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Maple Run?

11.2 inches on February 8, 2020, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 8.2 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 83.5 inches.

Q: How does the Maple Run snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Saint Albans through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Maple Run’s own big snow morning: 3.7 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 8.2 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Maple Run close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Saint Albans.

The Maple Run playbook

How Maple Run calls a snow day

How families hear

By email, phone call, text message and local TV.

“When there is a change in the school day, an automated message will be delivered via email and/or telephone through the District's emergency notification system. Information is also posted on local television channels WPTZ and WCAX.”

Maple Run Unified School District

Making up a lost day

Make-up days for closures may be added after the June 15, 2027 planned last day.

“Make-Up Days Due to School Closures May Be Added After the Last Student Day”

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 15, 2027

District calendar

Read from Maple Run’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is maplerun.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Maple Run’s snow record

60.7inches of snow a winter

6.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

2with 4 in or more

3.7 ina big snow morning in Maple Run: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

7.1Nov

9.8Dec

16.9Jan

17Feb

7.1Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 11.2 in on February 8, 2020
Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 83.5 in
6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
1 in mornings 10.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 8.2 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.

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 Maple Run

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Missisquoi Valley School DistrictSwanton	60.7 in	2
Franklin West Supervisory UnionFairfax	75.3 in	1.9
Milton Supervisory DistrictMilton	75.3 in	1.9
Colchester Supervisory DistrictColchester	78.8 in	3.2
Mount Mansfield Unified Union School DistrictJericho	121.2 in	4.8
Essex-Westford Supervisory DistrictEssex Junction	78.8 in	3.2

The schools

5 schools

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

High

Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans)
Northwest Technical Center

Elementary

St. Albans Town Educational Center
St. Albans City Elementary School
Fairfield Center School, Fairfield

Questions

Maple Run snow day questions

How does Maple Run announce a snow day?

When is the last day of school for Maple Run?

How much snow does Saint Albans get?

What was the biggest snow day near Maple Run?

How does the Maple Run snow day predictor work?

How does Vermont handle snow days?

More winter

More for Vermont snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Vermont winter forecastThe season ahead for Vermont: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.