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Elizabeth, New Jersey, 28,334 students in 37 schools

Elizabeth City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Elizabeth, measured against Elizabeth's own big snow morning of 5.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Elizabeth close tomorrow?

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

How Elizabeth calls a snow day

How families hear

By radio, local TV, the district website, social media and phone call.

“Emergency school closings and delayed openings due to inclement weather or any other emergency situation will be announced on the following radio/television stations/internet websites:”
2026-2027 Parent/Student Handbook: Emergency School Closings and Delayed Openings

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Students transported to and from school by school bus will be picked up two (2) hours later than normally scheduled.”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Added from June 22 through June 30, then taken from Easter recess working back from March 25.

“In the event that schools must close for inclement weather, etc., days will be made up commencing with June 22, 2027 with an additional day added to the calendar for each day missed through June 30, 2027”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 10, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 22, 2027
District calendar

Read from Elizabeth’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is epsnj.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Elizabeth’s snow record

24.2inches of snow a winter
1.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.2with 4 in or more
5.4 ina big snow morning in Elizabeth: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 53% of the 486 New Jersey districts with a station record.

0.7Nov
3.9Dec
6.4Jan
9.3Feb
3.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.1 in on February 1, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 51.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.4 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 Elizabeth

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Hillside Township School DistrictHillside24.2 in1.2
Roselle Borough School DistrictRoselle24.2 in1.2
Linden City School DistrictLinden24.2 in1.2
Union Township School DistrictUnion24.2 in1.2
Irvington Township School DistrictIrvington23.4 in1.4
Cranford Township School DistrictCranford24.2 in1.2
The schools

37 schools

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

High

  • John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
  • Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy
  • Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell Academy
  • Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
  • Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy
  • Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Academy
  • K. Johnson D. Vaughan and M. Jackson STEM Academy
  • J. Christian Bollwage Finance Academy

Middle

  • Terence C. Reilly School No 7
  • William F. Halloran School No.22

Elementary

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
  • Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28
  • Dr. Antonia Pantoja School No. 27
  • Jerome Dunn Academy No 9
  • Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
  • Dr. Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
  • Abraham Lincoln School No. 14
  • Chessie Dentley Roberts Academy School No. 30
  • Joseph Battin School No 4
  • Nicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 3
  • Dr. Orlando Edreira Academy School No. 26
  • Christopher Columbus School No. 15
  • Victor Mravlag School No. 21
  • Elmora School No. 12
  • Winfield Scott School No. 2
  • Madison Monroe School No. 16
  • Nicholas Murray Butler Academy School No. 23
  • Sonia Sotomayor School No 25
  • Woodrow Wilson School No. 19
  • George Washington Academy School No. 1
  • Robert Morris School No. 18
  • John Marshal School No. 20
  • iPrep Academy School No 8
  • Benjamin Franklin School No. 13

Other schools

  • Frances C. Smith Early Childhood Center No 50
  • Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 51
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early Childhood Center No 52
Questions

Elizabeth 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.