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New Martinsville, West Virginia, 2,205 students in 9 schools

Wetzel County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Wetzel, measured against Wetzel's own big snow morning of 2.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Wetzel close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in New Martinsville.
The Wetzel playbook

How Wetzel calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 19, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 4
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Schools in Wetzel and Tyler counties closed for snow and extreme cold in late January 2026.
    “Many businesses closed and schools were closed due to the snow and extreme cold.”
    News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Wetzel’s snow record

12.9inches of snow a winter
1.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.2with 4 in or more
2.5 ina big snow morning in Wetzel: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.3Nov
1.7Dec
6.4Jan
3.1Feb
1.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 5 in on January 13, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 21.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.2 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 Wetzel

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Tyler County School DistrictMiddlebourne14.9 in0.2
Marshall County School DistrictMoundsville14.5 in0.3
Pleasants County School DistrictSt. Marys15.3 in0.3
Doddridge County School DistrictWest Union9.8 in0.3
Ohio County School DistrictWheeling10.1 in0.5
Ritchie County School DistrictHarrisville14.3 in0.8
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • Magnolia High School
  • Paden City High School, Paden City
  • Valley High School, Pine Grove
  • Hundred High School, Hundred
  • Wetzel County Technical Education Center

Elementary

  • New Martinsville School
  • Short Line School, Reader
  • Long Drain School, Metz
  • Paden City Elementary School, Paden City
Questions

Wetzel 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.