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Newark, New Jersey, 42,791 students in 64 schools

Newark City School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Newark close tomorrow?

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

How Newark calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district app and the district website.

“In preparation for inclement weather, please install the NPS Mobile App. You will receive a Push Notification to the app when inclement weather closes schools, delayed opening or early closing.”
Inclement Weather Notices

Delayed openings

“Due to inclement weather, all schools will open on a 10:00am delayed schedule .”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Made up during spring recess or added at the end of the year.

“In the event that schools must close for inclement weather and it is necessary to make up days, days will be made up during Spring Recess or added at the end of the school year.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 8, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 28, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Closed for inclement weather on Jan 26 and Feb 23, 2026.
    “Due to inclement weather, all Newark Public Schools and the Central Office are closed on Monday, February 23, 2026 .”
    District notice
  • 2024 to 2025. Opened on a 10:00am delayed schedule on Feb 6, 2025; no closing posted that winter.
    “February 6, 2025 Due to inclement weather, all schools will open on a 10:00am delayed schedule .”
    District notice
  • 2023 to 2024. Closed on Jan 19 and Feb 13, 2024.
    “Due to inclement weather, Newark Public Schools are closed on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 .”
    District notice

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Newark’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 Newark: 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 1.3 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 Newark

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
East Orange City School DistrictEast Orange23.4 in1.4
Irvington Township School DistrictIrvington23.4 in1.4
Kearny Town School DistrictKearny23.4 in1.4
Belleville Town School DistrictBelleville23.4 in1.4
Orange City Township School DistrictOrange23.4 in1.4
Hillside Township School DistrictHillside24.2 in1.2
The schools

64 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • East Side High School
  • Barringer High School
  • Science Park High School
  • Central High School
  • Technology High School
  • West Side High School
  • Arts High School
  • Newark Vocational High School
  • Weequahic High School

Elementary

  • Ann Street School
  • Lafayette Street School
  • First Avenue School
  • Oliver Street School
  • Wilson Avenue School
  • Elliott Street Elementary School
  • Mt Vernon Place School
  • South Street Elementary School
  • Louise A. Spencer Elementary School
  • Abington Avenue School
  • Park Elementary School
  • Luis Munoz Marin Elementary School
  • McKinley Elementary School
  • East Ward Elementary School
  • Quitman Street School
  • Dr. William H. Horton Elementary School
  • Franklin Elementary School
  • Roberto Clemente Elementary School
  • Hawkins Street School
  • Rafael Hernandez School
  • Chancellor Avenue School
  • Ridge Street School
  • Thirteenth Avenue School
  • Camden Street Elementary School
  • Belmont Runyon Elementary School
  • George Washington Carver Elementary School
  • Speedway Avenue School
  • Sussex Avenue School
  • Peshine Avenue School
  • Dr. E. Alma Flagg School

Other schools

  • Early Childhood School - North
Questions

Newark 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.