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Fayetteville, West Virginia, 5,433 students in 12 schools

Fayette County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Fayette, measured against Fayette's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Fayette close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Fayetteville.
The Fayette playbook

How Fayette calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 13, 2026
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Fayette’s snow record

15.6inches of snow a winter
2.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.6with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Fayette: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.2Nov
1.8Dec
6.8Jan
3.2Feb
3.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on March 12, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 28 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 16.1 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 Fayette

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Raleigh County School DistrictBeckley22.9 in0.9
Nicholas County School DistrictSummersville15.6 in0.6
Clay County School DistrictClay12.5 in0.4
Summers County School DistrictHinton9.5 in0.3
Kanawha County School DistrictCharleston18.1 in0.6
Boone County School DistrictMadison10 in0.7
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • Oak Hill High, Oak Hill
  • Midland Trail High, Hico
  • Meadow Bridge High, Meadow Bridge
  • Fayette Institute Of Technology, Oak Hill

Middle

  • Oak Hill Middle School, Oak Hill

Elementary

  • New River Primary, Oak Hill
  • Fayetteville Pk-8
  • New River Intermediate, Oak Hill
  • Valley Pk-8, Smithers
  • Meadow Bridge Elementary, Meadow Bridge
  • Divide Elementary, Lookout
  • Ansted Elementary, Ansted
Questions

Fayette 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.