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Rochester, New York, 3,775 students in 6 schools

Gates-Chili Central School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Gates-Chili, measured against Gates-Chili's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Gates-Chili close tomorrow?

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

Gates-Chili’s snow record

87.9inches of snow a winter
10.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.8with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Gates-Chili: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 58% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

7.3Nov
18.8Dec
26.2Jan
20Feb
13.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16.2 in on March 14, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 120.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 17.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.1 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 Gates-Chili

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Spencerport Central School DistrictSpencerport87.9 in2.8
Rochester City School DistrictRochester87.9 in2.8
Greece Central School DistrictRochester87.9 in2.8
Churchville-Chili Central School DistrictChurchville49.7 in2
West Irondequoit Central School DistrictRochester87.9 in2.8
Brighton Central School DistrictRochester87.9 in2.8
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Gates Chili High School

Middle

  • Gates Chili Middle School

Elementary

  • Walt Disney School
  • Paul Road School
  • Neil Armstrong School
  • Florence Brasser School
Questions

Gates-Chili 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.