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Parkersburg, West Virginia, 11,310 students in 27 schools

Wood County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Wood, measured against Wood's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Wood close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Parkersburg.
The Wood playbook

How Wood calls a snow day

How families hear

“All schools will open two hours later than usual, and all bus schedules will be delayed by two hours.”
Inclement Weather Status | Wood County Schools

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Emergency Two-Hour Delay All schools will open two hours later than usual, and all bus schedules will be delayed by two hours.”
Delay schedule

NTI days

Wood has Non Traditional Instruction days in its winter plan, up to 5 a year.

“Wood County Schools’ NTID Guidance allows up to five at-home, standards-based learning days for students while staff complete professional duties.”
Source

Making up a lost day

The calendar warns that inclement weather could add instructional days to the year; no make-up dates are named.

“IMPORTANT NOTICE: INCLEMENT WEATHER OR UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES COULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS ADDED TO THE SCHOOL YEAR”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 19, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 18 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 12 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 3, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Wood’s snow record

7.5inches of snow a winter
1.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Wood: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.1Nov
1.2Dec
3.2Jan
2.3Feb
0.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 3.6 in on March 12, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 16.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.3 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.

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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 Wood

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Pleasants County School DistrictSt. Marys15.3 in0.3
Ritchie County School DistrictHarrisville14.3 in0.8
Jackson County School DistrictRipley3.9 in0.4
Roane County School DistrictSpencer16.4 in0.8
Tyler County School DistrictMiddlebourne14.9 in0.2
Doddridge County School DistrictWest Union9.8 in0.3
The schools

27 schools

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

High

  • Parkersburg High School
  • Parkersburg South High School
  • Williamstown High School, Williamstown
  • Caperton Center For Applied Technology
  • Wood Co Voc Tech Ctr

Middle

  • Edison Middle School
  • Blennerhassett Middle School
  • Jackson Middle School, Vienna
  • Hamilton Middle School
  • Van Devender Middle School

Elementary

  • Williamstown Elementary School, Williamstown
  • Blennerhassett Elementary School
  • Jefferson Elementary Center
  • Mineral Wells Elementary School, Mineral Wells
  • Emerson Elementary School
  • Lubeck Elementary School
  • Neale Elementary School, Vienna
  • Vienna Elementary School, Vienna
  • Kanawha Elementary School, Davisville
  • Madison Elementary School
  • Franklin Elementary Center
  • Criss Elementary School
  • Gihon Elementary School
  • Greenmont Elementary School, Vienna
  • Martin Elementary School
  • Fairplains Elementary School
  • Summit Success Center
Questions

Wood 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.