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Kingwood, West Virginia, 3,949 students in 10 schools

Preston County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Preston, measured against Preston's own big snow morning of 5.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Preston close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Kingwood.
The Preston playbook

How Preston calls a snow day

When the call comes

Process begins no later than 4 am unless decided the night before; goal is to communicate by 5:30 am.

“It is our goal to communicate this information by 5:30 am.”
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How families hear

By social media, the district website, the district app, text message, phone call and email.

“Download the app and receive emergency, closings and delay updates delivered to your mobile device.”
Delays, Closings and Communication Tools | Preston County Schools

Making up a lost day

Possible snow make-up days are Mar 25, Mar 30, Jun 2, Jun 3 and Jun 4.

“POSSIBLE SNOW MAKE UP DAYS: MARCH 25, MARCH 30, JUNE 2, JUNE 3, JUNE 4”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 1, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Missed several days to winter weather. WBOY reports the state approved a waiver for four dates missed in the last week of January 2026, during the Governor's emergency declaration.
    “A waiver request of the 180-day requirement was submitted by Mr. Martin on March 6th for a waiver of (4) dates that were missed due to weather during the last week of January that were a part of the Governor’s emergency declaration,”
    News report

Read from Preston’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is prestoncountyschools.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Preston’s snow record

68.6inches of snow a winter
8.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.9with 4 in or more
5.1 ina big snow morning in Preston: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 98% of the 53 West Virginia districts with a station record.

6.2Nov
12.2Dec
26.8Jan
11.7Feb
10.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on January 18, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 96.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 15.1 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 Preston

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Monongalia School DistrictMorgantown11.3 in0.3
Taylor County School DistrictGrafton18 in0.4
Marion County School DistrictFairmont12.3 in0.5
Barbour County School DistrictPhilippi18 in0.4
Mineral County School DistrictKeyser24.7 in1.3
Harrison County School DistrictClarksburg11.4 in0.9
The schools

10 schools

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

High

  • Preston High School

Middle

  • Central Preston Middle School

Elementary

  • West Preston School, Arthurdale
  • Bruceton School, Bruceton Mills
  • Kingwood Elementary
  • South Preston School, Tunnelton
  • Terra Alta/east Preston School, Terra Alta
  • Aurora School, Aurora
  • Fellowsville Elementary, Tunnelton
  • Rowlesburg School, Rowlesburg
Questions

Preston 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.