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Roanoke, Virginia, 13,582 students in 26 schools

Roanoke City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Roanoke City Public Schools, measured against Roanoke City Public Schools's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Roanoke City Public Schools close tomorrow?

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

Roanoke City Public Schools’s snow record

9inches of snow a winter
0.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Roanoke City Public Schools: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0Nov
2.5Dec
4.1Jan
1.2Feb
1.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on December 9, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 19.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3 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 Roanoke City Public Schools

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Roanoke County Public SchoolsRoanoke9 in0
Botetourt County Public SchoolsFincastle6.2 in0.2
Franklin County Public SchoolsRocky Mount7.2 in0.2
Bedford County Public SchoolsBedford5.9 in0.3
Montgomery County Public SchoolsChristiansburg13.3 in0.2
Radford City Public SchoolsRadford5.9 in0.2
The schools

26 schools

Every school in Roanoke City Public Schools follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Patrick Henry High
  • William Fleming High

Middle

  • Woodrow Wilson Middle
  • Breckinridge Middle
  • John P. Fishwick Middle
  • James Madison Middle
  • Addison Aerospace Magnet Middle

Elementary

  • Round Hill Elementary
  • Westside Elementary
  • Fallon Park Elementary
  • Preston Park Elementary
  • Monterey Elementary
  • Fairview Elementary
  • Roanoke Academy For Mathematics & Science Elementary
  • Highland Park Elementary
  • Grandin Court Elementary
  • Hurt Park Elementary
  • Garden City Elementary
  • Crystal Spring Elementary
  • Fishburn Park Elementary
  • Virginia Heights Elementary
  • Lincoln Terrace Elementary
  • Wasena Elementary
  • Morningside Elementary

Other schools

  • Forest Park Academy
  • Noel C. Taylor Academy At Oakland
Questions

Roanoke City Public Schools 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.