{"id":220,"date":"2010-10-11T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:09:53","slug":"school-closing-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/community-resources\/school-closing-information\/","title":{"rendered":"School Closing Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhv_heading1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Emergency School Closing Process<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the case of <strong>actual or predicted inclement weather,<\/strong> the decision to close school, delay an opening or dismiss early is made after the Superintendent confers with various area superintendents, county road officials, police departments and transportation and maintenance departments, in addition to several weather services.\u00a0 Any change to the normal schedule due to inclement weather will be communicated to parents and staff via the methods listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If school is cancelled:\n<ul>\n<li>A decision will usually be made by 5:30 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>A decision on afternoon and evening athletic events and activities will be made later in the day depending on road conditions and condition of campus. \u00a0Outside groups using the facility may be cancelled. To check the rescheduling of athletic events, please visit the athletic department&#8217;s webpage on the individual school&#8217;s website, or Twitter feed, for the most up-to-date information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If school is delayed:\n<ul>\n<li>A decision will usually be made by 5:30 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>School will begin two hours later at 9:45 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>All bus routes will be delayed exactly 2 hours from their original pick-up times.<\/li>\n<li>The decision is based upon safe traveling conditions predicted for later in the morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If school is dismissed early:\n<ul>\n<li>Students will usually be dismissed at 11:55 a.m., if weather conditions call for an early dismissal.<\/li>\n<li>The decision will be made by 10:45 a.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Please note: <\/strong>when schools are dismissed early, all afternoon, evening and athletic activities are cancelled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Superintendent contacts our 11 sending district superintendents to inform them of our decision, as well as various area superintendents and the County Superintendent of Schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"nhv_heading1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Communicating School Closures, Delayed Openings or Early Dismissals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The high school district uses an automated notification system called School Messenger to contact parents and staff members in the event of an emergency or if the school day schedule will be changed, such as a school closure due to snow.\u00a0 School Messenger contacts the phone numbers listed in our system for each student&#8217;s family and our staff members, sends an email to parents, and can also send a text message.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to School Messenger, parents and the community can utilize the following resources to find out if school has been cancelled, delayed or will be dismissed early.\u00a0 These resources will have the district&#8217;s message on cancellations or delayed openings by 6:00a.m. or in the case of an early dismissal, by 11:00a.m.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Internet<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>District Website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\">www.nhvweb.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook page for each school, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/northhunterdonhs\">www.facebook.com\/northhunterdonhs<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/voorheeshs\">www.facebook.com\/voorheeshs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Phone Numbers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Call North Hunterdon High School &#8211; 908-713-4199, choose option 9<\/p>\n<p>Call Voorhees High School &#8211; 908-638-2199, choose option 9<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Radio Stations<\/strong><\/span> <em>(cannot guarantee\u00a0school\u00a0announcements\u00a0will be read on-air)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WRNJ &#8211; 92.7FM, 1510AM, 104.7FM<\/p>\n<p>WFMZ &#8211; includes\u00a0100.7FM, B104.1FM, 99.9 The Hawk, 96.1 Cat Country, 95.1FM WZZO, 107.1FM The Bone, 105.5FM<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Television Stations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WFMZ 69 Allentown<\/p>\n<p>News 12 New Jersey<\/p>\n<p>NBC4 &#8211; New York<\/p>\n<p>NBC 10 &#8211; Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency School Closing Process In the case of actual or predicted inclement weather, the decision to close school, delay an opening or dismiss early is made after the Superintendent confers with various area superintendents, county road officials, police departments and transportation and maintenance departments, in addition to several weather services.\u00a0 Any change to the normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-220","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"override"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 02:53:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8887,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/8887"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}