Taylor County School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When is the last day of school for Taylor?

June 4, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Grafton get?

About 18 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.5 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.4 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Taylor?

7.5 inches on December 14, 2025, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 3 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 28.6 inches.

Q: How does the Taylor snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Grafton through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Taylor’s own big snow morning: 2.2 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Taylor close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Grafton.

The Taylor playbook

How Taylor calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

OS and non-instructional days marked on the calendar may be converted to instructional days if make-up days are needed.

“OS/Non-Instructional Days that MAY be converted to intstructional days if make-up days are needed to fulfill the required 180 instructional days.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 26, 2026
Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 4
Last day June 4, 2027

District calendar

Recent snow days

2024 to 2025: 6 days. Six snow days by Feb 14, one over the five not made up; April 17, 2025 became an instructional day.
“As of today, February 14th, 2025, Tayor County has experienced a total of Six(6) "Snow Days". This places us over the allowable limit of five (5) Snow Days per school year that we are not required to make up.”
District notice

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Taylor’s snow record

18inches of snow a winter

1.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.4with 4 in or more

2.2 ina big snow morning in Taylor: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

1.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

0.6Nov

3.4Dec

8.8Jan

3.8Feb

1.4Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 7.5 in on December 14, 2025
Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 28.6 in
6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
1 in mornings 4.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3 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.

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 Taylor

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Marion County School DistrictFairmont	12.3 in	0.5
Barbour County School DistrictPhilippi	18 in	0.4
Harrison County School DistrictClarksburg	11.4 in	0.9
Monongalia School DistrictMorgantown	11.3 in	0.3
Preston County School DistrictKingwood	68.6 in	4.9
Upshur County School DistrictBuckhannon	24.9 in	1.3

The schools

5 schools

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

High

Grafton High School

Middle

Taylor County Middle School

Elementary

Anna Jarvis Elementary School
West Taylor Elementary School, Flemington
Flemington Elementary School, Flemington

Questions

Taylor snow day questions

When is the last day of school for Taylor?

How much snow does Grafton get?

What was the biggest snow day near Taylor?

How does the Taylor snow day predictor work?

How does West Virginia handle snow days?

More winter

More for West Virginia snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.West Virginia winter forecastThe season ahead for West Virginia: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.