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Pittsylvania County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Pittsylvania, measured against Pittsylvania's own big snow morning of 6.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Pittsylvania close tomorrow?

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

Pittsylvania’s snow record

6.6inches of snow a winter
0.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.3with 4 in or more
6.2 ina big snow morning in Pittsylvania: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0Nov
2.2Dec
3.4Jan
0.4Feb
0.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.2 in on December 10, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 18.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 0.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Pittsylvania

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Danville City Public SchoolsDanville4.3 in0
Halifax County Public SchoolsHalifax5.3 in0.2
Henry County Public SchoolsCollinsville7.1 in0.2
Franklin County Public SchoolsRocky Mount7.2 in0.2
Campbell County Public SchoolsRustburg8.7 in0.4
Bedford County Public SchoolsBedford5.9 in0.3
The schools

21 schools

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

High

  • Tunstall High, Dry Fork
  • Chatham High
  • Dan River High, Ringgold
  • Gretna High, Gretna

Middle

  • Tunstall Middle, Dry Fork
  • Dan River Middle, Ringgold
  • Chatham Middle
  • Gretna Middle, Gretna

Elementary

  • Twin Springs Elementary, Danville
  • Kentuck Elementary, Ringgold
  • Gretna Elementary, Gretna
  • Southside Elementary, Blairs
  • Stony Mill Elementary, Danville
  • John L. Hurt Elementary, Hurt
  • Chatham Elementary
  • Brosville Elementary, Danville
  • Union Hall Elementary
  • Mount Airy Elementary, Gretna

Other schools

  • Pittsylvania Regional Alternative School/STEM Academy
  • Pittsylvania Vocational-Technical Center
  • Victory Academy/Ready for Success
Questions

Pittsylvania 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.