Cleveland, Tennessee, 10,336 students in 18 schools

Bradley County School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Cleveland get?

About 0.4 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 6.9 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.1 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Bradley?

3 inches on January 10, 2025, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 6.9 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 3 inches.

Q: How does the Bradley snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Cleveland through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and weighs them against how Tennessee districts handle a bad morning.

Q: Can Tennessee schools hold a remote day instead?

A district may move a class, a school or every school to remote instruction for dangerous or extreme weather; up to 5 days each semester of the required 180 may be delivered remotely.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Bradley, read from the National Weather Service forecast for Cleveland.

The next three school mornings

Will Bradley close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Cleveland.

Ten winters of school mornings

Bradley’s snow record

0.4inches of snow a winter

0.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0with 4 in or more

0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

0Nov

0Dec

0.4Jan

0Feb

0Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 3 in on January 10, 2025
Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 3 in
6 in mornings 0 a winter
1 in mornings 0.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.9 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.

The Tennessee rule

How Tennessee counts a lost day

Tennessee requires at least 180 days of classroom instruction, with a 6.5 hour instructional day. A district that runs a half hour longer than the required 6.5 hour day all year banks the extra time as up to 13 stockpile days, which can cover days lost to dangerous or extreme weather.

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

Next door

Districts near Bradley

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Cleveland City School DistrictCleveland	0.4 in	0
Hamilton County School DistrictChattanooga	1.2 in	0
Rhea County School DistrictDayton	1.2 in	0.1
McMinn County School DistrictAthens	2.2 in	0
Monroe County School DistrictMadisonville	2.2 in	0
Marion County School DistrictJasper	2.4 in	0.1

The schools

18 schools

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

High

Bradley Central High School
Walker Valley High School
Bradley County Virtual School
PIE Innovation Center

Middle

Lake Forest Middle School
Ocoee Middle School

Elementary

Waterville Community Elementary School
North Lee Elementary School
Black Fox Elementary School
Hopewell Elementary School
Michigan Avenue Elementary School
Park View Elementary School
Prospect Elementary School
Oak Grove Elementary School
Charleston Elementary School, Charleston
Valley View Elementary School
Taylor Elementary School

Other schools

North Cleveland GOAL Academy

Questions

Bradley snow day questions

How much snow does Cleveland get?

What was the biggest snow day near Bradley?

How does the Bradley snow day predictor work?

How does Tennessee handle snow days?

Can Tennessee schools hold a remote day instead?

More winter

More for Tennessee snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Tennessee winter forecastThe season ahead for Tennessee: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.