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Edison, New Jersey, 17,005 students in 19 schools

Edison Township School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Edison Township close tomorrow?

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

How Edison Township calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call, email, the district website, social media and the district app.

“Voice call to phone numbers listed in the Genesis Parent Portal”
School Closing/Delayed Opening Information

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“REGULAR SCHOOL HOURS 8:55 AM 3:30 PM ... DELAYED OPENING 10:55 AM 3:30 PM”
Delay schedule

3 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Emergency Days”.

“In the the event the three built in Emergency Days are used, additional days will be taken from Spring Recess.”
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Making up a lost day

After the three built-in days, extra days come out of Spring Recess (March 22 to 26).

“In the the event the three built in Emergency Days are used, additional days will be taken from Spring Recess.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 16, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Edison Township’s snow record

22.2inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
5.7 ina big snow morning in Edison Township: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 61% of the 486 New Jersey districts with a station record.

0.4Nov
3Dec
5.9Jan
8.9Feb
3.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.5 in on February 23, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 44.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.7 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 Edison Township

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Piscataway Township School DistrictPiscataway22.4 in1.3
Woodbridge Township School DistrictWoodbridge12.5 in0.73
Perth Amboy City School DistrictPerth Amboy12.5 in0.7
South Plainfield Borough School DistrictSouth Plainfield22.4 in1.3
Sayreville Borough School DistrictParlin12.5 in0.7
Rahway City School DistrictRahway24.2 in1.2
The schools

19 schools

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

High

  • John P. Stevens High School
  • Edison High School

Middle

  • Woodrow Wilson Middle School
  • Herbert Hoover Middle School
  • John Adams Middle School
  • Thomas Jefferson Middle School

Elementary

  • Lincoln Elementary School
  • Woodbrook Elementary School
  • Menlo Park Elementary School
  • John Marshall Elementary School
  • Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
  • Martin Luther King Elementary School
  • James Madison Intermediate School
  • Washington Elementary School
  • James Monroe Elementary School
  • James Madison Primary School
  • Lindeneau Elementary School

Other schools

  • Franklin D Roosevelt School
  • Edison Early Learning Center
Questions

Edison Township 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.