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Alexandria, Virginia, 16,406 students in 19 schools

Alexandria City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Alexandria, measured against Alexandria's own big snow morning of 3.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Alexandria close tomorrow?

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

Alexandria’s snow record

8.1inches of snow a winter
0.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Alexandria: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 50% of the 116 Virginia districts with a station record.

0.1Nov
0.4Dec
5.2Jan
1.5Feb
0.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.3 in on January 13, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 16.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.4 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 Virginia rule

How Virginia counts a lost day

Virginia requires at least 180 teaching days or 990 teaching hours, or state aid is reduced. After 5 closures, only one of every two further days must be made up; the Board of Education can also waive make-up when every reasonable effort is exhausted.

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

Next door

Districts near Alexandria

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Arlington County Public SchoolsArlington8.1 in0.4
Fairfax County Public SchoolsFalls Church13.1 in0.8
Manassas Park City Public SchoolsManassas Park10.2 in0.4
Manassas City Public SchoolsManassas10.2 in0.4
Prince William County Public SchoolsManassas10.2 in0.4
Loudoun County Public SchoolsAshburn12.1 in0.8
The schools

19 schools

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

High

  • Alexandria City High School

Middle

  • Francis C. Hammond Middle
  • George Washington Middle

Elementary

  • Patrick Henry K-8 School
  • Mount Vernon Elementary
  • James K. Polk Elementary
  • John Adams Elementary
  • Samuel W. Tucker Elementary
  • William Ramsay Elementary
  • Douglas MacArthur Elementary
  • Ferdinand T. Day Elementary
  • Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School
  • Charles Barrett Elementary
  • Lyles-Crouch Elementary
  • Naomi L. Brooks Elementary
  • George Mason Elementary
  • Cora Kelly School for Math Science and Technology

Other schools

  • Early Childhood Center
  • Governor's Health Science Academy at T.C. Williams High
Questions

Alexandria snow day questions

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More winter

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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.