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Clifton, New Jersey, 11,010 students in 19 schools

Clifton City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Clifton, measured against Clifton's own big snow morning of 5.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Clifton close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Clifton.
The Clifton playbook

How Clifton calls a snow day

How families hear

“Parents should make advance arrangements with a neighbor or another responsible adult who can receive and care for their child(ren) in the event of a delayed opening, early dismissal, or school closure.”
District Bell Schedule: Delayed Opening, Emergency Closure, and Early Dismissal Procedures

A 90 minute delay

On a delay morning every school starts 90 minutes late.

“On delayed opening days, school buses will arrive approximately 90 minutes later than their regularly scheduled pick-up time.”
Delay schedule

Read from Clifton’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is clifton.k12.nj.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Clifton’s snow record

28inches of snow a winter
2.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.9with 4 in or more
5.7 ina big snow morning in Clifton: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 83% of the 486 New Jersey districts with a station record.

0.8Nov
4.4Dec
6.4Jan
10.4Feb
5.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.3 in on February 2, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 51.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.8 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The New Jersey rule

How New Jersey counts a lost day

New Jersey requires at least 180 days of school, or the district loses state aid.

The New Jersey rules in the agency’s own words, and every New Jersey district

Next door

Districts near Clifton

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Passaic City School DistrictPassaic28 in1.9
Paterson City School DistrictPaterson28 in1.94
Garfield City School DistrictGarfield28 in1.9
Nutley Town School DistrictNutley32.2 in1.2
Lodi Borough School DistrictLodi28 in1.9
Montclair Town School DistrictMontclair32.2 in1.2
The schools

19 schools

Every school in Clifton follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Clifton High School

Middle

  • Woodrow Wilson Middle School
  • Christopher Columbus Middle School

Elementary

  • School #12
  • School #17
  • School #13
  • School #5
  • School #2
  • School #11
  • School #14
  • School #9
  • School #1
  • School #15
  • School #3
  • School #16
  • School #8
  • School #4

Other schools

  • Clifton Early Learner Academies - Brighton
  • Clifton Early Learner Academies - Allwood
Questions

Clifton snow day questions

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.