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Amsterdam, New York, 3,748 students in 6 schools

Amsterdam City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Amsterdam, measured against Amsterdam's own big snow morning of 5.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Amsterdam close tomorrow?

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

Amsterdam’s snow record

44.6inches of snow a winter
4.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.6with 4 in or more
5.8 ina big snow morning in Amsterdam: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 53% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

2.6Nov
13.9Dec
10.7Jan
10.5Feb
5.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 33 in on December 17, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 63.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 16.2 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 York rule

How New York counts a lost day

New York requires 180 days of session plus 900 hours a year for kindergarten to grade 6 and 990 hours for grades 7 to 12. The Commissioner can excuse up to 5 days closed for extraordinary weather, but only if the district cannot make them up by using all its scheduled vacation days before the June Regents exams.

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

Next door

Districts near Amsterdam

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Broadalbin-Perth Central School DistrictBroadalbin127.3 in5.2
Fonda-Fultonville Central School DistrictFonda65 in2.8
Johnstown City School DistrictJohnstown127.3 in5.2
Gloversville City School DistrictGloversville127.3 in5.2
Scotia-Glenville Central School DistrictScotia44.6 in2.6
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School DistrictBurnt Hills44.6 in2.6
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Amsterdam High School

Middle

  • Wilbur H Lynch Literacy Academy

Elementary

  • William B Tecler Arts in Education
  • Raphael J McNulty Academy for Intern Studies & Literacy
  • Marie Curie Institute of Engineering and Communication
  • William H Barkley Microsociety
Questions

Amsterdam 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.