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Newburgh City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Newburgh, measured against Newburgh's own big snow morning of 5.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Newburgh close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Newburgh.
The Newburgh playbook

How Newburgh calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website, email, phone call, social media and local TV.

“The district uses the following methods to communicate school closings, delays, and emergency news: the district website, email, and robocall, posted on social media channels, and shared with local media as necessary.”
2026-2027 Wall Calendar & Parent Notification Handbook, School Closing Information

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 Newburgh’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is newburghschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Newburgh’s snow record

30.6inches of snow a winter
4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
5.6 ina big snow morning in Newburgh: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.6Nov
6.3Dec
5.6Jan
8.9Feb
8.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.7 in on March 15, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 51.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 11.5 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 Newburgh

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Beacon City School DistrictBeacon30.6 in1.3
Cornwall Central School DistrictCornwall on Hudson28.3 in1.6
Wappingers Central School DistrictHopewell Junction30.6 in1.34
Valley Central School District (Montgomery)Montgomery44 in3.4
Washingtonville Central School DistrictWashingtonville28.3 in1.6
Highland Falls Central School DistrictHighland Falls28.3 in1.6
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • Newburgh Free Academy

Middle

  • Heritage Middle School, New Windsor
  • South Middle School

Elementary

  • Meadow Hill School
  • Temple Hill School, New Windsor
  • Gidney Avenue Memorial School
  • Gardnertown Leadership Academy Elementary School
  • Fostertown School
  • Vails Gate Steam Academy, New Windsor
  • Horizon-on-the-Hudson School
  • New Windsor School, New Windsor
  • Balmville School
Questions

Newburgh snow day questions

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More winter

More for New York snow days

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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.