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Harrisonburg, Virginia, 11,534 students in 23 schools

Rockingham County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Rockingham close tomorrow?

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

Rockingham’s snow record

10.8inches of snow a winter
1.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.6with 4 in or more
4.7 ina big snow morning in Rockingham: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 75% of the 116 Virginia districts with a station record.

0.2Nov
1.5Dec
4.6Jan
2.7Feb
1.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 19.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.5 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 Rockingham

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Harrisonburg City Public SchoolsHarrisonburg10.8 in0.6
Augusta County Public SchoolsVerona9.4 in1.1
Page County Public SchoolsLuray11.4 in0.9
Waynesboro City Public SchoolsWaynesboro9.4 in1.1
Shenandoah County Public SchoolsWoodstock14.3 in0.7
Charlottesville City Public SchoolsCharlottesville10.6 in0.7
The schools

23 schools

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

High

  • Turner Ashby High, Bridgewater
  • Spotswood High, Penn Laird
  • Broadway High, Broadway
  • East Rockingham High, Elkton

Middle

  • Wilbur S. Pence Middle, Dayton
  • J. Frank Hillyard Middle, Broadway
  • Montevideo Middle, Penn Laird
  • Elkton Middle, Elkton

Elementary

  • Cub Run Elementary, Penn Laird
  • Peak View Elementary, Penn Laird
  • John W. Wayland Elementary, Bridgewater
  • John C. Myers Elementary, Broadway
  • Plains Elementary, Timberville
  • Mountain View Elementary
  • River Bend Elementary, Elkton
  • South River Elementary, Grottoes
  • Elkton Elementary, Elkton
  • Pleasant Valley Elementary
  • McGaheysville Elementary, McGaheysville
  • Lacey Spring Elementary
  • Ottobine Elementary, Dayton
  • Linville-Edom Elementary, Linville
  • Fulks Run Elementary, Fulks Run
Questions

Rockingham snow day questions

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More winter

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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.