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Spring Mills, Pennsylvania, 1,301 students in 4 schools

Penns Valley Area School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Penns Valley close tomorrow?

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

Penns Valley’s snow record

30.5inches of snow a winter
4.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Penns Valley: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.7Nov
5.2Dec
9.1Jan
8.4Feb
4.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on December 17, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 48 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3 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 Pennsylvania rule

How Pennsylvania counts a lost day

Pennsylvania requires either 180 days, or hours: 900 for kindergarten through grade 6 and 990 for grades 7 to 12, as the district chooses. The state forgives no days; districts are expected to build make-up days into the calendar for closures beyond any Flexible Instructional Days.

The Pennsylvania rules in the agency’s own words, and every Pennsylvania district

Next door

Districts near Penns Valley

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Bellefonte Area School DistrictBellefonte41.8 in2.6
Bald Eagle Area School DistrictWingate41.8 in2.6
State College Area School DistrictState College29.5 in0.9All made up
Keystone Central School DistrictMill Hall26.5 in1.1
Mifflin County School DistrictLewistown23.1 in1.2
Juniata County School DistrictMifflintown23.1 in1.2
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Penns Valley Area JSHS

Elementary

  • Penns Valley Area El and Intrmd Sch
  • Centre Hall-Potter El Sch, Centre Hall
  • Miles Township El Sch, Rebersburg
Questions

Penns 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.