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East Orange, New Jersey, 9,337 students in 20 schools

East Orange City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in East Orange, measured against East Orange's own big snow morning of 5.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will East Orange close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in East Orange.
Ten winters of school mornings

East Orange’s snow record

23.4inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
5.9 ina big snow morning in East Orange: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 66% of the 486 New Jersey districts with a station record.

0.6Nov
3.9Dec
5.8Jan
8.8Feb
3.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14 in on February 23, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 44.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.8 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 East Orange

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Orange City Township School DistrictOrange23.4 in1.4
Bloomfield Township School DistrictBloomfield23.4 in1.4
Irvington Township School DistrictIrvington23.4 in1.4
Newark City School DistrictNewark23.4 in1.4
West Orange Town School DistrictWest Orange32.2 in1.2
Kearny Town School DistrictKearny23.4 in1.4
The schools

20 schools

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

High

  • East Orange Campus High School
  • Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School
  • East Orange STEM Academy High School

Middle

  • Patrick F. Healy Middle School
  • John L. Costley Middle School
  • Sojourner Truth Middle School

Elementary

  • Langston Hughes Elementary School
  • Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of Excellence
  • Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School
  • Benjamin Banneker Academy
  • Shelia Y. Oliver Academy
  • Dionne Warwick Institute
  • Whitney E. Houston Academy
  • Gordon Parks Academy
  • Ecole Toussaint Louverture
  • J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy
  • Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary
  • Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Academy

Other schools

  • Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy
  • Althea Gibson Academy
Questions

East Orange snow day questions

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More winter

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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.