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Jackson, Tennessee, 12,662 students in 26 schools

Jackson-Madison County School System Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Jackson-Madison, measured against Jackson-Madison's own big snow morning of 3.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Jackson-Madison close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Jackson.
The Jackson-Madison playbook

How Jackson-Madison calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 3, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 21, 2027
District calendar

Read from Jackson-Madison’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is jmcss.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Jackson-Madison’s snow record

3.7inches of snow a winter
0.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Jackson-Madison: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.1Nov
0.1Dec
1.9Jan
1Feb
0.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 5.5 in on March 12, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 6.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 0.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.7 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 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 Jackson-Madison

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Henderson County School DistrictLexington3 in0.1
Gibson County School DistrictDyer4 in0.1
Hardeman County School DistrictBolivar2.6 in0.2
McNairy County School DistrictSelmer1.9 in0.1
Dyer County School DistrictDyersburg3.3 in0.1
Lauderdale County School DistrictRipley3.5 in0.3
The schools

26 schools

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

High

  • North Side High School
  • South Side High School
  • Liberty Technology Magnet High School
  • Madison Academic Magnet High School
  • Jackson Central Merry High School
  • Jackson Central-Merry Early College High

Middle

  • Northeast Middle School
  • Jackson Career Technology Magnet Elementary
  • Jackson Central Merry Middle School
  • West-Bemis Middle School
  • North Parkway Middle School

Elementary

  • Thelma Barker Elementary
  • Community Montessori School
  • Arlington Elementary School
  • Pope School
  • Rose Hill School
  • East Elementary School
  • Andrew Jackson Elementary School
  • Isaac Lane Technology Magnet Elementary
  • South Elementary, Pinson
  • Denmark Elementary, Denmark
  • Lincoln Elementary School
  • Alexander Elementary School

Other schools

  • Nova Early Learning Center
  • Jackson Academic STEAM Academy
  • Parkview Prep Academy
Questions

Jackson-Madison snow day questions

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More winter

More for Tennessee 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.