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Virginia Beach, Virginia, 64,986 students in 88 schools

Virginia Beach City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Virginia Beach close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Virginia Beach.
The Virginia Beach playbook

How Virginia Beach calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call, email and the district website.

“You may also call the VBCPS Emergency Hotline at 757.263.1000 or visit vbschools.com .”
Weather-Related School Closings and Delays

Delayed openings

“For your convenience, we developed a matrix that addresses the impact of a one-hour delay, two-hour delay, and early dismissal.”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Designated make-up dates by quarter: Nov 2, Jan 25 and Apr 9, with Q4 set by the superintendent.

“In cases of school closings due to inclement weather or emergency conditions, makeup days will be designated by the superintendent and may include available staff days or holidays.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from Virginia Beach’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is vbschools.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Virginia Beach’s snow record

5.8inches of snow a winter
0.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.3with 4 in or more
4.7 ina big snow morning in Virginia Beach: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0Nov
0.1Dec
4.2Jan
1.3Feb
0.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.2 in on February 19, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 16.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 12.8 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 Virginia Beach

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Chesapeake City Public SchoolsChesapeake5.8 in0.2
Norfolk City Public SchoolsNorfolk4.2 in0.1
Portsmouth City Public SchoolsPortsmouth4.2 in0.1
Hampton City Public SchoolsHampton4.2 in0.1
Suffolk City Public SchoolsSuffolk5.3 in0.3
Newport News City Public SchoolsNewport News
The schools

88 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Landstown High
  • Kempsville High
  • Bayside High
  • Floyd Kellam High
  • Tallwood High
  • Ocean Lakes High
  • First Colonial High
  • Princess Anne High
  • Salem High
  • Frank W. Cox High
  • Green Run High

Middle

  • Larkspur Middle
  • Old Donation School
  • Princess Anne Middle
  • Landstown Middle
  • Independence Middle
  • Salem Middle
  • Great Neck Middle
  • Plaza Middle
  • Corporate Landing Middle
  • Brandon Middle
  • Lynnhaven Middle
  • Bayside Middle
  • Kempsville Middle
  • Virginia Beach Middle

Elementary

  • Glenwood Elementary
  • Thoroughgood Elementary
  • John B. Dey Elementary
  • Point O' View Elementary
  • New Castle Elementary
  • Three Oaks Elementary
  • Woodstock Elementary
  • White Oaks Elementary
  • Alanton Elementary
  • Birdneck Elementary
  • Princess Anne Elementary
  • Landstown Elementary
  • Christopher Farms Elementary
  • Strawbridge Elementary
  • Thalia Elementary
Questions

Virginia Beach snow day questions

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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.