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School Hours

Regular Hours

Early Dismissal Hours

  • Elementary (includes PreK): 12 noon
  • Walker and CMS:  12:45 pm
  • CHS: 1:40 pm
  • Lugo-McGinness Academy: 11:30 am

❄️ Snow Day/Inclement Weather Plans ❄️

 Safety is our first concern. Decisions on schedule changes due to weather are made after taking into consideration:

  • Road conditions within the city
  • Conditions of primary roads in the surrounding area that would impact school staff and bus driver commutes
  • Sidewalk conditions within the city that would impact walkers
  • Conditions on school grounds, including walkways
  • Forecasted weather that could create hazardous travel, particularly if an early release is needed

Our staff works with the City of Charlottesville to make these decisions, consulting with a professional weather service and surveying local road and sidewalk conditions. 

    • Morning announcements will be made around 5:30am. Sometimes CCS can announce a decision the evening before.
    • Early-release decisions will be made by 10:30am whenever possible.

    • Via phone, email, or text using ParentSquare. All staff, families, and CHS students automatically receive notifications.
    • CCS website homepage
    • CCS social media: Facebook
    • Through local TV and radio stations and their websites.

  • Join ParentSquare Community Group for Weather Announcements

  • All school activities are canceled unless otherwise indicated.

    • School buses run on the same delay as school. (If schools are opening on a 2-hour delay, then buses will run their usual routes 2 hours later.)
    • Early-morning (zero period) classes at CMS and CHS are canceled.
    • At CATEC, the morning session is canceled, but the afternoon session will begin at the usual time (1:25).
    • Morning field trips are canceled.

    • Students will be fed lunch before dismissal, if possible.
    • At CATEC, the afternoon session is canceled. After-school programs are canceled unless otherwise announced.
    • All school activities are canceled unless otherwise indicated.

    Unless otherwise announced, the dismissal schedule is:

    • Preschool through 4th grade will dismiss at noon.
    • Grades 5-8 will dismiss at 12:45 pm.
    • Grades 9-12 will dismiss at 1:40 pm (since afternoon CATEC will be canceled, this includes CATEC students).
    • LMA dismisses at 11:30.

    • We sometimes announce a 2-hour delay with re-evaluation – especially if the weather is forecasted to begin early in the morning.
    • This gives us extra time to consider the latest conditions before we announce a final decision around 7:30am.
    • If you receive this message, we expect that schools will open 2 hours late, but please be prepared in case we announce a full-day closure at 7:30am.

    • Generally, no announcement means we will open school on time. No news is good news!
    • In some cases, we will post a message saying “we will open on time” to ParentSquare and the website with no notifications so that families can check to be confident that a decision has been made. This typically happens following a series of closures, or in situations where inclement weather has been forecast but conditions are safe.