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Suffolk, Virginia, 14,520 students in 22 schools

Suffolk City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Suffolk, measured against Suffolk's own big snow morning of 6.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Suffolk close tomorrow?

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

Suffolk’s snow record

5.3inches of snow a winter
0.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.3with 4 in or more
6.3 ina big snow morning in Suffolk: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0Nov
0.3Dec
3.6Jan
1.1Feb
0.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on January 4, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 15.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1 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 Suffolk

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Portsmouth City Public SchoolsPortsmouth4.2 in0.1
Chesapeake City Public SchoolsChesapeake5.8 in0.2
Norfolk City Public SchoolsNorfolk4.2 in0.1
Hampton City Public SchoolsHampton4.2 in0.1
Newport News City Public SchoolsNewport News
Virginia Beach City Public SchoolsVirginia Beach5.8 in0.3
The schools

22 schools

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

High

  • Nansemond River High
  • King's Fork High
  • Lakeland High

Middle

  • King's Fork Middle
  • Colonel Fred Cherry Middle
  • John F. Kennedy Middle
  • John Yeates Middle
  • Forest Glen Middle

Elementary

  • Florence Bowser Elementary
  • Northern Shores Elementary
  • Creekside Elementary
  • Hillpoint Elementary
  • Mack Benn Jr. Elementary
  • Elephant's Fork Elementary
  • Southwestern Elementary
  • Oakland Elementary
  • Kilby Shores Elementary
  • Nansemond Parkway Elementary
  • Booker T. Washington Elementary

Other schools

  • FIRST Academy
  • The College and Career Academy at Pruden
  • Turlington Woods Alternative
Questions

Suffolk snow day questions

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More winter

More for Virginia snow days

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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.