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Montgomery, New York, 4,273 students in 6 schools

Valley Central School District (Montgomery) Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Valley (Montgomery), measured against Valley (Montgomery)'s own big snow morning of 6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Valley (Montgomery) close tomorrow?

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

Valley (Montgomery)’s snow record

44inches of snow a winter
5.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.4with 4 in or more
6 ina big snow morning in Valley (Montgomery): the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 72% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

3.3Nov
12Dec
8.8Jan
11.5Feb
7.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16.5 in on March 14, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 69.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 17 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 Valley (Montgomery)

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Wallkill Central School DistrictWallkill44 in3.4
Washingtonville Central School DistrictWashingtonville28.3 in1.6
Pine Bush Central School DistrictPine Bush44 in3.4
Newburgh City School DistrictNewburgh30.6 in1.3
Cornwall Central School DistrictCornwall on Hudson28.3 in1.6
Goshen Central School DistrictGoshen47.6 in2.3
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Valley Central High School

Middle

  • Valley Central Middle School

Elementary

  • Montgomery Elementary School
  • Berea Elementary School
  • Walden Elementary School, Walden
  • East Coldenham Elementary School, Newburgh
Questions

Valley (Montgomery) 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.