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Marion, Virginia, 3,892 students in 14 schools

Smyth County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Smyth close tomorrow?

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

Smyth’s snow record

8.2inches of snow a winter
0.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.3with 4 in or more
2.3 ina big snow morning in Smyth: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.5Nov
1.9Dec
3.9Jan
1.5Feb
0.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on December 10, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 19.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 14.8 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 Smyth

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Tazewell County Public SchoolsTazewell27.1 in1
Wythe County Public SchoolsWytheville13.3 in0.3
Washington County Public SchoolsAbingdon7.7 in0.1
Russell County Public SchoolsLebanon10.5 in0.4
Pulaski County Public SchoolsPulaski10.9 in0.2
Carroll County Public SchoolsHillsville10.9 in0.4
The schools

14 schools

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

High

  • Marion Senior High
  • Chilhowie High, Chilhowie
  • Northwood High, Saltville

Middle

  • Marion Middle
  • Chilhowie Middle, Chilhowie
  • Northwood Middle, Saltville

Elementary

  • Chilhowie Elementary, Chiilhowie
  • Oak Point Elementary
  • Marion Elementary
  • Saltville Elementary, Saltville
  • Atkins Elementary, Atkins
  • Rich Valley Elementary, Saltville
  • Sugar Grove Elementary, Sugar Grove

Other schools

  • Smyth County Career & Technical Center
Questions

Smyth 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.