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Tazewell, Virginia, 5,302 students in 14 schools

Tazewell County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Tazewell, measured against Tazewell's own big snow morning of 3.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Tazewell close tomorrow?

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

Tazewell’s snow record

27.1inches of snow a winter
3.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Tazewell: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 94% of the 116 Virginia districts with a station record.

1.4Nov
6.1Dec
10.6Jan
4.2Feb
4.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on March 25, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 42.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 10.6 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 Tazewell

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Smyth County Public SchoolsMarion8.2 in0.3
Wythe County Public SchoolsWytheville13.3 in0.3
Russell County Public SchoolsLebanon10.5 in0.4
Washington County Public SchoolsAbingdon7.7 in0.1
Pulaski County Public SchoolsPulaski10.9 in0.2
Giles County Public SchoolsPearisburg11 in0.1
The schools

14 schools

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

High

  • Richlands High, Richlands
  • Graham High, Bluefield
  • Tazewell High

Middle

  • Richlands Middle, Richlands
  • Tazewell Middle
  • Graham Middle, Bluefield

Elementary

  • Richlands Elementary, Richlands
  • Tazewell Primary
  • Graham Intermediate, Bluefield
  • Tazewell Intermediate, North Tazewell
  • Cedar Bluff Elementary, Cedar Bluff
  • Dudley Primary, Bluefield
  • Abb's Valley-Boissevain Elementary, Bluefield

Other schools

  • Tazewell County Career & Technical Center
Questions

Tazewell 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.