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Norfolk, Virginia, 26,882 students in 49 schools

Norfolk City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Norfolk, measured against Norfolk's own big snow morning of 4.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Norfolk close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Norfolk.
The Norfolk playbook

How Norfolk calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

First three make-up days covered by banked time, the fourth on Feb 15.

“In order to be prepared for weather or emergency closures, Norfolk Public Schools includes in its schedule additional instructional time (“banked time”) above that requirement.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Read from Norfolk’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is npsk12.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Norfolk’s snow record

4.2inches of snow a winter
0.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.1with 4 in or more
4.7 ina big snow morning in Norfolk: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0Nov
0Dec
4Jan
0.1Feb
0.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on January 4, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 13 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 0.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.1 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 Norfolk

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Portsmouth City Public SchoolsPortsmouth4.2 in0.1
Chesapeake City Public SchoolsChesapeake5.8 in0.2
Hampton City Public SchoolsHampton4.2 in0.1
Virginia Beach City Public SchoolsVirginia Beach5.8 in0.3
Suffolk City Public SchoolsSuffolk5.3 in0.3
Newport News City Public SchoolsNewport News
The schools

49 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Granby High
  • Norview High
  • Matthew Fontaine Maury High
  • Lake Taylor High
  • Booker T Washington High

Middle

  • Norview Middle
  • Blair Middle
  • Azalea Gardens Middle
  • Northside Middle
  • Academy for Discovery at Lakewood
  • Ruffner School

Elementary

  • Southside STEM Academy at Campostella
  • Lake Taylor
  • Little Creek Elementary
  • Larrymore Elementary
  • Jacox Elementary
  • Coleman Place Elementary
  • Ingleside Elementary
  • Sewells Point Elementary
  • Tanners Creek Elementary
  • Ocean View Elementary
  • Bay View Elementary
  • Ghent K-8
  • Larchmont Elementary
  • Granby Elementary
  • Richard Bowling Elementary
  • Willard Elementary
  • Suburban Park Elementary
  • Sherwood Forest Elementary
  • Mary Calcott Elementary
  • Oceanair Elementary
  • Camp Allen Elementary
  • Norview Elementary
  • Walter Herron Taylor Elementary
  • Chesterfield Elementary
  • Tarrallton Elementary
  • James Monroe Elementary
  • Lindenwood Elementary
  • St. Helena Elementary

Other schools

  • Crossroads PreK-8 School
Questions

Norfolk 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.