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Gate City, Virginia, 4,268 students in 15 schools

Scott County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Scott, measured against Scott's own big snow morning of 2.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Scott close tomorrow?

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

Scott’s snow record

15.6inches of snow a winter
1.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
2.3 ina big snow morning in Scott: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

0.7Nov
3.8Dec
6.4Jan
2.8Feb
1.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7.5 in on December 10, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 22.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6 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 Scott

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Wise County Public SchoolsWise19 in0.7
Russell County Public SchoolsLebanon10.5 in0.4
Washington County Public SchoolsAbingdon7.7 in0.1
Smyth County Public SchoolsMarion8.2 in0.3
Tazewell County Public SchoolsTazewell27.1 in1
Wythe County Public SchoolsWytheville13.3 in0.3
The schools

15 schools

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

High

  • Gate City High
  • Rye Cove High, Duffield
  • Twin Springs High, Nickelsville

Middle

  • Gate City Middle
  • Rye Cove Intermediate, Clinchport

Elementary

  • Shoemaker Elementary
  • Weber City Elementary, Weber City
  • Duffield-Pattonsville Primary, Duffield
  • Nickelsville Elementary, Nickelsville
  • Yuma Elementary
  • Hilton Elementary, Hiltons
  • Dungannon Elementary School, Dungannon

Other schools

  • Virginia Connections Academy
  • Fort Blackmore Center for Excellence, Fort Blackmore
  • Scott County Career and Technical Center
Questions

Scott 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.