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Lynchburg, Virginia, 7,727 students in 20 schools

Lynchburg City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lynchburg, measured against Lynchburg's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lynchburg close tomorrow?

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

Lynchburg’s snow record

8.7inches of snow a winter
1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Lynchburg: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

0Nov
2Dec
4.4Jan
1.3Feb
1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.5 in on December 9, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 21 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.2 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 Lynchburg

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Campbell County Public SchoolsRustburg8.7 in0.4
Amherst County Public SchoolsAmherst12.1 in0.8
Bedford County Public SchoolsBedford5.9 in0.3
Botetourt County Public SchoolsFincastle6.2 in0.2
Pittsylvania County Public SchoolsChatham6.6 in0.3
Roanoke City Public SchoolsRoanoke9 in0
The schools

20 schools

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

High

  • E.C. Glass High
  • Heritage High

Middle

  • Linkhorne Middle
  • Sandusky Middle
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation

Elementary

  • Robert S. Payne Elementary
  • Heritage Elementary
  • Sheffield Elementary
  • Bedford Hills Elementary
  • Linkhorne Elementary
  • Perrymont Elementary
  • Paul Munro Elementary
  • Sandusky Elementary
  • William M. Bass Elementary
  • T.C. Miller Elementary School for Innovation
  • Dearington Elementary/Innovation

Other schools

  • Carl B. Hutcherson Building
  • Lynchburg Regional Governor's STEM Academy
  • Restorative Academy - Elem
  • Restorative Academy - Secondary
Questions

Lynchburg snow day questions

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More winter

More for Virginia 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.Virginia winter forecastThe season ahead for Virginia: 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.