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West Orange, New Jersey, 7,030 students in 13 schools

West Orange Town School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in West Orange Town, measured against West Orange Town's own big snow morning of 5.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will West Orange Town close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in West Orange.
Ten winters of school mornings

West Orange Town’s snow record

32.2inches of snow a winter
2.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.2with 4 in or more
5.2 ina big snow morning in West Orange Town: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

0.8Nov
5.3Dec
7.4Jan
10.6Feb
7.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17.4 in on March 7, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 65.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.9 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.

The New Jersey rules in the agency’s own words, and every New Jersey district

Next door

Districts near West Orange Town

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Montclair Town School DistrictMontclair32.2 in1.2
Bloomfield Township School DistrictBloomfield23.4 in1.4
Orange City Township School DistrictOrange23.4 in1.4
East Orange City School DistrictEast Orange23.4 in1.4
Irvington Township School DistrictIrvington23.4 in1.4
Nutley Town School DistrictNutley32.2 in1.2
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • West Orange High School

Middle

  • Liberty Middle School
  • Edison Middle School, W Orange
  • Roosevelt Middle School, W Orange

Elementary

  • Kelly Elementary School, W Orange
  • Gregory Elementary School, W Orange
  • Washington Elementary School, W Orange
  • Redwood Elementary School, W Orange
  • St. Cloud Elementary School, W Orange
  • Mount Pleasant Elementary School
  • Hazel Avenue Elementary School, W Orange

Other schools

  • West Orange Early Childhood Learning Center
  • Betty Maddalena Early Learning Center
Questions

West Orange Town 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.