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A list of Massachusetts school closings

A snow-covered school bus traveled in the early morning in Milton a day after a snowstorm hit the Boston area.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

With the latest winter storm set to bring icy conditions, schools around Massachusetts announced closures for Friday.

The storm began overnight Thursday and will stretch into Friday. Temperatures will steadily drop, bringing with them ice and potentially hazardous road conditions — a factor some school districts cited as their primary reason for calling off classes.

Below is a partial list of schools that are closed on Friday.

  • Acton-Boxborough
  • Amesbury
  • Andover
  • Arlington
  • Ashburnham-Westminster
  • Ashland
  • Attleboro
  • Auburn
  • Ayer-Shirley
  • Bedford
  • Bellingham
  • Belmont
  • Berlin-Boylston
  • Beverly
  • Billerica
  • Blackstone-Millville
  • Boston
  • Braintree (early release)
  • Bridgewater-Raynham (early release)
  • Brockton
  • Brookline
  • Burlington
  • Cambridge
  • Canton
  • Carlisle
  • Chelmsford
  • Chelsea
  • Clinton
  • Cohasset (early release)
  • Concord
  • Danvers
  • Dedham
  • Dover-Sherborn Regional
  • Dracut
  • Duxbury (early release)
  • East Bridgewater (early release)
  • Easton
  • Everett
  • Fitchburg
  • Framingham
  • Franklin
  • Gardner
  • Georgetown
  • Gloucester
  • Grafton
  • Groton-Dunstable
  • Hamilton-Wenham
  • Hanover (early release)
  • Harvard
  • Haverhill
  • Hingham (early release)
  • Holbrook (early release)
  • Holliston
  • Hopkinton
  • Hudson
  • Hull (early release)
  • Ipswich
  • King Philip Regional (Norfolk, Plainville, and Wrentham)
  • Lawrence
  • Leicester
  • Leominster
  • Lexington
  • Lincoln
  • Littleton
  • Lowell
  • Lunenburg
  • Lynn
  • Lynnfield
  • Malden
  • Manchester Essex
  • Mansfield
  • Marblehead
  • Marlborough
  • Marshfield (early release)
  • Masconomet (Boxford, Middleton, Topsfield)
  • Maynard
  • Medfield
  • Medway
  • Melrose
  • Mendon-Upton
  • Methuen
  • Middleborough (early release)
  • Milford
  • Millis
  • Milton
  • Nahant
  • Nashoba (Bolton, Stow, Lancaster)
  • Natick
  • Needham
  • Newburyport
  • Newton
  • North Andover
  • Norfolk
  • Norton
  • North Middlesex (Ashby, Pepperell, Townsend)
  • North Reading
  • Norwood
  • Peabody
  • Pentucket
  • Pembroke (early release)
  • Plainville
  • Plymouth (half day)
  • Quincy
  • Randolph
  • Reading
  • Revere
  • Rockland (early release)
  • Rockport
  • Salem
  • Scituate (early release)
  • Shrewsbury
  • Silver Lake (Halifax, Kingston, Plympton)
  • Somerville
  • Stoneham (two-hour delay)
  • Stoughton
  • Sudbury
  • Swampscott
  • Tewksbury
  • Triton Regional School District (Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury)
  • Tri-Town School Union (Boxford, Middleton, Topsfield)
  • Tyngsborough
  • Wakefield
  • Walpole
  • Waltham
  • Watertown
  • Wellesley
  • Westborough (early release)
  • Weston
  • Westwood
  • Winchendon
  • Wilmington
  • Winthrop
  • Woburn
  • Wrentham

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