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Spring Valley, New York, 10,473 students in 14 schools

East Ramapo Central School District (Spring Valley) Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in East Ramapo (Spring Valley), measured against East Ramapo (Spring Valley)'s own big snow morning of 5.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will East Ramapo (Spring Valley) close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Spring Valley.
The East Ramapo (Spring Valley) playbook

How East Ramapo (Spring Valley) calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:30 a.m., with communication by 5:45 a.m.

“If the need arises, the decision to close or delay school opening is made by 5:30 a.m. and communication will be made by 5:45 a.m.”
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How families hear

By phone call, text message, social media, the district app and the district website.

“The features of this system communicate information from the District through traditional telephone, text messages, social media and the customized District Mobile App.”
Emergency Closings - East Ramapo Central School District

Making up a lost day

Emergency closings are made up on March 29, then April 19 (April 20 if March 29 cannot be used).

“* Emergency closing make-up days: March 29 (1st); April 19 (2nd). If March 29 cannot be used due to emergency closings after that date, April 20 will be used as the second make-up day.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 3, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 25, 2027
District calendar

Read from East Ramapo (Spring Valley)’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is ercsd.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

East Ramapo (Spring Valley)’s snow record

27.6inches of snow a winter
2.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.6with 4 in or more
5.3 ina big snow morning in East Ramapo (Spring Valley): the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.2Nov
4.3Dec
6.8Jan
12.5Feb
2.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.7 in on February 23, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 60.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 17.8 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 East Ramapo (Spring Valley)

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Pearl River Union Free School DistrictPearl River28 in1.9
Nanuet Union Free School DistrictNanuet27.6 in1.6
Clarkstown Central School DistrictNew City27.6 in1.63
South Orangetown Central School DistrictBlauvelt27.6 in1.6
Nyack Union Free School DistrictNyack27.6 in1.6
Suffern Central School DistrictHillburn24.1 in1.8
The schools

14 schools

Every school in East Ramapo (Spring Valley) follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Ramapo High School
  • Spring Valley High School

Middle

  • Kakiat Elementary School
  • Chestnut Ridge Middle School, Chestnut Ridge
  • Pomona Middle School, Suffern
  • Lime Kiln Elementary School, Suffern
  • Eldorado Elementary School, Chestnut Ridge

Elementary

  • Fleetwood Elementary School, Chestnut Ridge
  • Summit Park Elementary School, New City
  • Margetts Elementary School, Monsey
  • Grandview Elementary School, Monsey
  • Elmwood Elementary School, Monsey
  • Hempstead Elementary School

Other schools

  • East Ramapo Early Childhood Center at Kakiat
Questions

East Ramapo (Spring Valley) 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.