Mother Nature is pushing school further into spring for many students.

Only Union 37 in Rangeley has kept snow days to three so far. Others in the region are at five or more.

A quick-moving storm added one more to SAD 36’s calendar Wednesday.

“We started out the day hoping we could get at least a half a day in, so we didn’t miss any more school,” SAD 36 transportation director Ken Vining said. “That’s what we anticipated, but it didn’t happen.”

When buses rolled about 6 a.m. to pick up high and middle school students, weather was good.

“About 6:30 the snow just started and opened right up. It came fast,” Vining said. “The temperature was just right to make the roads just terrible.”

Buses started sliding on roads in Livermore and Livermore Falls, he said, as public works crews worked to keep up.

Cars couldn’t make it up Cedar Street to Livermore Falls schools for a while, which backed traffic up on Route 133.

School was eventually called off and students sent home.

The last day of school was supposed to be June 6, Vining said, but now it’s at June 17 and counting.

“(Thursday) doesn’t look too good, ” Vining said, with more snow possible.

Jay buses were already loaded with students heading to high and middle schools when snow started. After the bus drivers’ experiences on the slick road, the elementary school canceled and the other students were to be dismissed at 12:30 p.m.

“We felt we could operate a regular day, but things deteriorated very rapidly,” Superintendent Robert Wall said. “We are doing our best to make these calls based on what’s safe for students.”

Wednesday counted as a full day of school and kept snow days used at six, one more than budgeted.

Jay’s last school day is also June 17, but the season isn’t over, Wall said.

SADs 9 and 58 and Union 37 students arrived at school before heavy snow hit.

It was a scheduled early-release day in SAD 9, Assistant Superintendent Susan Pratt said.

“We typically use five snow days a year,” she said, but it varies with weather.

They’ve used five, which has pushed the last day to June 12, but it could change, Pratt said.

SAD 58 Superintendent Quenten Clark said five snow days have been used, and school is scheduled to end June 12, barring more snow days.

“When I cancel school, hundreds of children are left home alone,” he said. “While most people worry about the little ones, hundreds of unsupervised teenagers is not a good idea either.”

Some of those teenagers are drivers who will take the day to drive to Sugarloaf or other locations, he added.

SAD 58 bus drivers are experienced at driving snowy roads, Clark said.

“The chances of a child being injured on a school bus, even on a snowy day, are very small,” he said.

Union 37 Superintendent Phil Richardson had planned to attend a meeting in Auburn on Wednesday and went home to Winthrop on Tuesday. Normally he stays at his apartment in Rangeley on weekdays.

The meeting in Auburn was canceled so he headed to Rangeley taking Route 133 to Farmington.

“It was snowing like the devil,” he said. “It was a really, heavy wet snow.”

Once he got past Farmington and into Phillips, it wasn’t snowing.

The last day of school in Rangeley is scheduled for June 12 but that will depend on the weather, he said.