Officials in several school districts announced Tuesday that they canceled classes Wednesday because a storm is expected to bring icy conditions during the morning.

“The current prediction for tomorrow is icing in our area at both the stop and start of our school day,” Lewiston schools Superintendent Jake Langlais said via Twitter. “The timing makes the decision of school very challenging. All things considered, I have decided there will be no schools for Lewiston Public Schools.”

Auburn School Department made the announcement on its website, citing “inclement weather” as the reason.

Regional School Unit 16 in Poland said on a social media post that “some of our bus drivers wrote Santa a letter, asking for no school” on Wednesday.

“They got their wish! There will be no school,” the post said, though it blamed the “predicted timing of icy conditions” rather than the hard-to-refuse request from Santa Claus for the move.

Mount Blue School District in Farmington also canceled classes for Wednesday, according to posts on its Facebook page.

In its Facebook post, the Oxford Hills School District in Paris announced it would monitor the weather and make a decision Wednesday whether to host a 4 p.m. wrestling match with teams from Cheverus High School in Portland, Cony High School in Augusta and Windham High School. The Christmas break for all students in the eight towns was already scheduled to begin Wednesday.

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