Washington County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

Washington County Public Schools announces closings normally before 5:30 a.m., with texts, calls and emails to families around 5:30 a.m, by its own published protocol.

By text message, phone call, email, the district app, the district website, social media, local TV and radio, and on the district’s own closings page.

6 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “inclement weather days”.

June 8, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 16.6 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.5 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2.2 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.8 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Hagerstown through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Washington County Public Schools’s own big snow morning: 5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.5 miles away.

Maryland requires at least 180 school days and 1,080 hours within 10 months, with days of at least 3 hours. On a county board's application showing it tried to comply, the State Board may shorten the year when severe weather or a disaster prevented normal attendance, without cutting state or local funding.