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White Plains, New York, 6,784 students in 7 schools

White Plains City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in White Plains, measured against White Plains's own big snow morning of 5.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will White Plains close tomorrow?

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

How White Plains calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district app, text message, email, phone call, the district website, local TV and radio.

“Keep your contact information updated to receive important notifications, updates, weather alerts and emergency messages via text message, email, app and voice call.”
2026-27 calendar booklet, Weather Emergencies

Delayed openings

“For delayed openings, buses (including those for private schools and special education) will operate one or more hours later than the usual schedule, as announced.”

3 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Weather/Emergency Days”.

“Weather/Emergency Days 3”
Source

Making up a lost day

Spring recess days March 22, 23 and 24 become school days after more than three weather closings.

“If schools are closed for more than three days due to weather, schools will be open in the following order: March 22, 23 and 24.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 25, 2027
District calendar

Read from White Plains’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is whiteplainspublicschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

White Plains’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 White Plains: 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 8.6 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 White Plains

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Harrison Central School DistrictHarrison27.6 in1.6
Port Chester-Rye Union Free School DistrictPort Chester27.6 in1.6
Rye City School DistrictRye27.6 in1.6
Blind Brook-Rye Union Free School DistrictRye Brook27.6 in1.6
Scarsdale Union Free School DistrictScarsdale27.6 in1.6
Rye Neck Union Free School DistrictMamaroneck27.6 in1.6
The schools

7 schools

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

High

  • White Plains Senior High School

Middle

  • White Plains Middle School

Elementary

  • George Washington School
  • Post Road School
  • Church Street School
  • Mamaroneck Avenue School
  • Ridgeway School
Questions

White Plains 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.