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Clarksburg, West Virginia, 9,724 students in 25 schools

Harrison County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Harrison, measured against Harrison's own big snow morning of 4.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Harrison close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Clarksburg.
The Harrison playbook

How Harrison calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

OS (Outside School Environment) days on the calendar can be used to make up missed days.

Make up dates: Nov 23, Feb 15, Apr 5, Jun 4, Jun 7, Jun 8.

“Outside School Environment days can be utilized to make-up days to ensure 180 days of instruction occurs.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 18, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 5
  • Last day June 1, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. The state granted a waiver for some 2025-26 snow days, so students' last day stayed Friday May 29, 2026.
    “We are pleased to share that Harrison County Schools received a waiver from the West Virginia Department of Education to help offset some snow days used this year.”
    District notice

Read from Harrison’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is harcoboe.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Harrison’s snow record

11.4inches of snow a winter
1.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.9with 4 in or more
4.4 ina big snow morning in Harrison: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 77% of the 53 West Virginia districts with a station record.

0.2Nov
1.6Dec
6.2Jan
3Feb
0.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on January 6, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 24.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1 mile 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 Harrison

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Taylor County School DistrictGrafton18 in0.4
Marion County School DistrictFairmont12.3 in0.5
Lewis County School DistrictWeston16.9 in0.6
Barbour County School DistrictPhilippi18 in0.4
Upshur County School DistrictBuckhannon24.9 in1.3
Doddridge County School DistrictWest Union9.8 in0.3
The schools

25 schools

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

High

  • Bridgeport High School, Bridgeport
  • Robert C Byrd High School
  • Lincoln High School, Shinnston
  • Liberty High School
  • South Harrison High School, Lost Creek
  • United High School
  • Evolution High School
  • United Technical Center

Middle

  • Bridgeport Middle School, Bridgeport
  • Washington Irving Middle School
  • Lincoln Middle School, Shinnston
  • Mountaineer Middle School
  • South Harrison Middle School, Lost Creek
  • Evolution Middle School

Elementary

  • Johnson Elementary School, Bridgeport
  • Nutter Fort Primary School, Nutter Fort
  • Big Elm Elementary School, Shinnston
  • Simpson Elementary School, Bridgeport
  • Nutter Fort Intermediate School, Nutter Fort
  • West Milford Elementary School, West Milford
  • Victory Elementary School
  • North View Elementary School
  • Lumberport Elementary School, Lumberport
  • Salem Elementary, Salem
  • Lost Creek Elementary School, Lost Creek
Questions

Harrison 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.