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Charlottesville, Virginia, 4,433 students in 10 schools

Charlottesville City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Charlottesville, measured against Charlottesville's own big snow morning of 5.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Charlottesville close tomorrow?

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

Charlottesville’s snow record

10.6inches of snow a winter
1.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.7with 4 in or more
5.2 ina big snow morning in Charlottesville: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 78% of the 116 Virginia districts with a station record.

0Nov
2.2Dec
5.1Jan
2.4Feb
0.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.9 in on December 10, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 24 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.5 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 Charlottesville

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Albemarle County Public SchoolsCharlottesville10.6 in0.7
Fluvanna County Public SchoolsPalmyra10.6 in0.7
Waynesboro City Public SchoolsWaynesboro9.4 in1.1
Orange County Public SchoolsOrange6.1 in0.5
Augusta County Public SchoolsVerona9.4 in1.1
Louisa County Public SchoolsMineral10.6 in0.4
The schools

10 schools

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

High

  • Charlottesville High

Middle

  • Walker Upper Elementary
  • Buford Middle

Elementary

  • Jackson-Via Elementary
  • Johnson Elementary
  • Venable Elementary
  • Clark Elementary
  • Burnley-Moran Elementary
  • Greenbrier Elementary

Other schools

  • Lugo-McGinness Academy
Questions

Charlottesville snow day questions

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