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Brooke County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Brooke, measured against Brooke's own big snow morning of 2.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Brooke close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Wellsburg.
The Brooke playbook

How Brooke calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 20, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 4
  • Last day June 2, 2027
District calendar

Read from Brooke’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is brooke.k12.wv.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Brooke’s snow record

15inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
2.5 ina big snow morning in Brooke: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.2Nov
3Dec
5.9Jan
3.8Feb
2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on January 26, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 27.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.1 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 West Virginia rule

How West Virginia counts a lost day

West Virginia requires at least 900 instructional hours a year, with each county setting the length of its days. The State Superintendent may lower the minimum in a county under a federal disaster declaration or a Governor's emergency declaration tied to the lost hours.

The West Virginia rules in the agency’s own words, and every West Virginia district

Next door

Districts near Brooke

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Ohio County School DistrictWheeling10.1 in0.5
Hancock County School DistrictNew Cumberland14.5 in0.7
Marshall County School DistrictMoundsville14.5 in0.3
Wetzel County School DistrictNew Martinsville12.9 in0.2
Tyler County School DistrictMiddlebourne14.9 in0.2
Monongalia School DistrictMorgantown11.3 in0.3
The schools

7 schools

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

High

  • Brooke High School

Middle

  • Brooke Middle School

Elementary

  • Brooke Primary School North, Follansbee
  • Brooke Primary School South
  • Brooke Intermediate School North, Follansbee
  • Brooke Intermediate School South

Other schools

  • The Bruin Bridge
Questions

Brooke snow day questions

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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.