Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 10,356 students in 12 schools
Perth Amboy City School District Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Perth Amboy, measured against Perth Amboy's own big snow morning of 5.9 inches.
The next three school mornings
Will Perth Amboy close tomorrow?
Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Perth Amboy.
Ten winters of school mornings
Perth Amboy’s snow record
12.5inches of snow a winter
1.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.7with 4 in or more
5.9 ina big snow morning in Perth Amboy: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.3Nov
1.6Dec
2.9Jan
7.1Feb
0.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
Biggest day 10 in on February 17, 2024
Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 34.4 in
6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
1 in mornings 2.6 a winter
Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.2 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.
Every school in Perth Amboy follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.
High
Perth Amboy High School
Middle
William C. McGinnis Middle School
Samuel E. Shull Middle School
Dual Language School, Fords
Elementary
Rose M. Lopez Elementary School
Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School
Edward J. Patten Elementary School
Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School
James J. Flynn Elementary School
Anthony V. Ceres Elementary School
Other schools
Ignacio Cruz Early Childhood Center
Edmund Hmieleski Early Childhood Center
Questions
Perth Amboy snow day questions
About 12.5 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.2 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.1 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.7 with 4 inches or more.
10 inches on February 17, 2024, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 4.2 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2020 to 2021, with 34.4 inches.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Perth Amboy 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 Perth Amboy’s own big snow morning: 5.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.2 miles away.
New Jersey requires at least 180 days of school, or the district loses state aid.
A virtual or remote day counts toward the 180 days only when schools close for more than three consecutive days because of a declared state of emergency, a declared public health emergency or a health agency directive, under a program the commissioner approved.
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.
