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Ripley, West Virginia, 4,037 students in 13 schools

Jackson County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Jackson, measured against Jackson's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Jackson close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Ripley.
The Jackson playbook

How Jackson calls a snow day

How families hear

“*Code C - Schools are closed. No personnel will report to work.”
Special Weather Codes | Jackson County Schools

Making up a lost day

Out of calendar days are used to make up canceled instructional days when non-instructional days are not enough.

“Out-of-calendar days must be used to make-up canceled instructional days, if non-instructional days are not adequate”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 18, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 18 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 28, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Jackson’s snow record

3.9inches of snow a winter
0.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Jackson: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.1Nov
0.7Dec
2Jan
0.8Feb
0.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 5 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 10.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a 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 Jackson

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Roane County School DistrictSpencer16.4 in0.8
Putnam County School DistrictWinfield14.8 in0.7
Mason County School DistrictPoint Pleasant7.1 in0.4
Wood County School DistrictParkersburg7.5 in0
Kanawha County School DistrictCharleston18.1 in0.6
Clay County School DistrictClay12.5 in0.4
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Ripley High School
  • Ravenswood High School, Ravenswood
  • Roane-Jackson Technical Center, Le Roy

Middle

  • Ripley Middle School
  • Ravenswood Middle School, Ravenswood

Elementary

  • Ripley Elementary School
  • Henry J Kaiser Elementary School, Ravenswood
  • Ravenswood Grade School, Ravenswood
  • Kenna Elementary School, Kenna
  • Fairplain Elementary School
  • Evans Elementary School, Evans
  • Cottageville Elementary School, Cottageville
  • Gilmore Elementary School, Sandyville
Questions

Jackson 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.