Passaic City School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When is the last day of school for Passaic?

June 23, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Passaic get?

About 28 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 5.4 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2.5 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.9 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Passaic?

12.3 inches on February 2, 2021, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 5.4 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2017 to 2018, with 51.5 inches.

Q: Does Passaic get more snow days than other New Jersey districts?

Passaic averages 1.9 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 83 percent of the 486 New Jersey districts with a station record.

Q: How does the Passaic snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Passaic through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Passaic’s own big snow morning: 5.7 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 5.4 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Passaic close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Passaic.

The Passaic playbook

How Passaic calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“Automated phone messages ... Radio announcements: WCBS 880 AM; WINS 1010 AM ... Television announcements: WNBC (Channel 4); FOX 5 (Channel 5); WABC (Channel 7); WPIX (Channel 11)”

Passaic Public Schools Parent Handbook 2026-2027: Emergency School Closings

Making up a lost day

Two inclement weather days after the last day, June 24 and 25; heavy use may also cut into winter or spring break.

“The calendar includes two (2) inclement weather days. The use of snow days may impact upon the scheduled winter and/or spring breaks in the calendar.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day September 3, 2026
Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
Last day June 23, 2027

District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Passaic’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 Passaic: 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 5.4 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.

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 Passaic

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Garfield City School DistrictGarfield	28 in	1.9
Clifton City School DistrictClifton	28 in	1.9
Lodi Borough School DistrictLodi	28 in	1.9
Paterson City School DistrictPaterson	28 in	1.9	4
Nutley Town School DistrictNutley	32.2 in	1.2
Hackensack City School DistrictHackensack	21.9 in	0.9

The schools

19 schools

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

High

Passaic High School No. 12
Passaic Preparatory Academy
Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering

Middle

Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20
Ellen Ochoa School Number 22
Muhammad Ali School Number 23

Elementary

William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6
Mario Drago School No. 3
Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25
Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19
Sonia Sotomayor School #21
Thomas Jefferson School No. 1
Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10
Etta Gero School No. 9

Other schools

Abraham Lincoln School Number 24
Sallie D. Gamble School No. 7
Vincent Capuana School No. 15
Casimir Pulaski School No. 8

Questions

Passaic snow day questions

How does Passaic announce a snow day?

When is the last day of school for Passaic?

How much snow does Passaic get?

What was the biggest snow day near Passaic?

Does Passaic get more snow days than other New Jersey districts?

How does the Passaic snow day predictor work?

How does New Jersey handle snow days?

More winter

More for New Jersey snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.New Jersey winter forecastThe season ahead for New Jersey: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.