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Bradford, Vermont, 1,781 students in 7 schools

Orange East Supervisory Union Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Orange East, measured against Orange East's own big snow morning of 4.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Orange East close tomorrow?

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

How Orange East calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 22 to Mar 2
  • Last day June 15, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Orange East’s snow record

104inches of snow a winter
10.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4with 4 in or more
4.1 ina big snow morning in Orange East: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
18.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 67% of the 52 Vermont districts with a station record.

8.5Nov
20.5Dec
25Jan
22.1Feb
20.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17.2 in on December 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 128.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 18.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 10 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 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 Orange East

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Hartford Supervisory DistrictWilder56.7 in2.8
Central Vermont Supervisory UnionWilliamstown87.1 in3.6
Barre Supervisory DistrictBarre79.4 in3.2
White River Valley Supervisory UnionRoyalton70.2 in3.8
Washington Central Supervisory DistrictMontpelier79.4 in3.2
Caledonia Central Supervisory UnionDanville85.5 in3.4
The schools

7 schools

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

High

  • Oxbow Union High School
  • River Bend Career & Technical Center

Elementary

  • Waits River Valley Union School, East Corinth
  • Bradford Elementary School
  • Thetford Elementary School, Thetford
  • Newbury Elementary School, Newbury

Other schools

  • Blue Mountain Union School, Wells River
Questions

Orange East 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.