City Schools Dismiss Early; University High School Closed

City schools have started to release students early today as snowflakes fall in Hartford.

And at the University High School of Science and Engineering, there were no classes Monday because a broken water pipe flooded parts of the building. A custodian discovered the flooded floors when he entered the magnet school at 6 a.m., spokesman David Medina said.

“They’re working on it now,” Medina said. “They’re very confident they’ll reopen school tomorrow.”

Twenty-one Hartford schools in Tier 1 were scheduled to dismiss students at 11:15 a.m. because of the wintry weather. In the school system’s Tier 2, there are 16 schools to be dismissed at noon. The final wave of schools — 24 of them in Tier 3 — will release students at 12:45 p.m.

Parents are told which tier their child’s school belongs to, according to Medina.