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Washington County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Washington County Public Schools close tomorrow?

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

Washington County Public Schools’s snow record

7.7inches of snow a winter
0.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.1with 4 in or more
2.3 ina big snow morning in Washington County Public Schools: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.2Nov
2.1Dec
3.8Jan
1.4Feb
0.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on December 9, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 14.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.7 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 Washington County Public Schools

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Russell County Public SchoolsLebanon10.5 in0.4
Smyth County Public SchoolsMarion8.2 in0.3
Scott County Public SchoolsGate City15.6 in0.4
Tazewell County Public SchoolsTazewell27.1 in1
Wise County Public SchoolsWise19 in0.7
Wythe County Public SchoolsWytheville13.3 in0.3
The schools

16 schools

Every school in Washington County Public Schools follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Abingdon High
  • John S. Battle High, Bristol
  • Patrick Henry High, Glade Spring
  • Holston High, Damascus

Middle

  • E.B. Stanley Middle
  • Wallace Middle, Bristol
  • Glade Spring Middle, Glade Spring
  • Damascus Middle, Damascus

Elementary

  • High Point Elementary, Bristol
  • Watauga Elementary
  • Meadowview Elementary, Meadowview
  • Rhea Valley Elementary, Meadowview
  • Abingdon Elementary
  • Greendale Elementary
  • Valley Institute Elementary, Bristol

Other schools

  • Washington County Career & Technical Education Center
Questions

Washington County Public Schools 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.