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Washington School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Washington School District close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in St. George.
The Washington School District playbook

How Washington School District calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 13, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 26, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2016 to 2017. Two-hour delay at Hurricane-area schools on Friday, January 6, 2017 after a winter storm; St. George-area schools ran on regular schedules.
    “While all St. George-area schools are on regular schedules Friday with no delays, Hurricane-area schools will be on a two-hour delay, according to a statement issued by the Washington County School District.”
    News report

The board policy

“If the emergency is total school dismissal, such as building heating, the District Superintendent should be contacted for approval before a decision is made to close school. Otherwise, the principal is to make the decision.”
Board policy

Read from Washington School District’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is washk12.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Washington School District’s snow record

1.1inches of snow a winter
0.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Washington School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0Nov
0Dec
0Jan
0.8Feb
0.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 3.8 in on February 18, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 7.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 0.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.4 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 Utah rule

How Utah counts a lost day

Utah requires at least 180 school days of educational services. No fixed count; a district that closes for snow and would fall short of 180 days can ask the State Superintendent for a waiver, granted without Board approval if it built contingency days into its calendar.

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

Next door

Districts near Washington School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Iron School DistrictCedar City47.1 in1.8
Sevier School DistrictRichfield11.9 in0.6
Millard School DistrictDelta12.4 in0.6
South Sanpete School DistrictManti47.4 in2.6
Carbon School DistrictPrice15.8 in0.7
Nebo School DistrictSpanish Fork52.6 in3.2
The schools

56 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Crimson Cliffs High, Washington
  • Utah Online 7-12, Saint George
  • Snow Canyon High, St George
  • Dixie High, St George
  • Desert Hills High, Saint George
  • Pine View High, St George
  • Enterprise High, Enterprise

Middle

  • Washington Fields Intermediate, Washington
  • Sunrise Ridge Intermediate, Saint George
  • Lava Ridge Intermediate, Santa Clara
  • Tonaquint Intermediate, Saint George
  • Fossil Ridge Intermediate

Elementary

  • Utah Online K8, St George
  • Hurricane Intermediate, Hurricane
  • Hurricane School, Hurricane
  • Majestic Fields School, Washington
  • Riverside School, Washington
  • Little Valley School, St George
  • Desert Canyons Elementary, Saint George
  • Three Falls School, Hurricane
  • South Mesa Elementary, Saint George
  • Bloomington School, St George
  • Horizon School, Washington
  • Legacy School, St George
  • Crimson View School, St George
  • Arrowhead School, Santa Clara
  • Coral Canyon School, Washington
  • Sandstone School, St George
  • Heritage School, Saint George
  • Bloomington Hills School, St George
  • Sunset School, St George

Other schools

  • Hurricane High, Hurricane
  • Crimson Cliffs Middle, Washington
  • Desert Hills Middle, Saint George
  • Dixie Middle, St George
  • Snow Canyon Middle, St George
  • Hurricane Middle, Hurricane
  • Pine View Middle, St George
  • Washington Preschool, St George
  • Career Tech High School, Saint George
Questions

Washington School District 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.