All K-12 schools in North Carolina schools are required to complete a minimum of 1,025 hours of instruction or 185 student days in a school year. Watauga County Schools starts the school year with calendar that includes 180 student days. However, the system typically has several county-wide closings every year as a result of inclement weather. These days must be made up either during the year (e.g., Saturday school or moving teacher workdays) or by adding days to the end of the year. Even with makeups, the number of days students miss is of concern to many people because they feel canceled days disrupt student learning, especially considering the pressure to perform well on standardized tests and the NC School Report Cards.
year: school yearfall: fall year of the school yearstart_date: first day for studentsend_date: last day for studentsaug_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Augustsep_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Septemberoct_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Octobernov_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Novemberdec_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Decemberjan_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Januaryfeb_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Februarymar_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Marchapr_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Aprilmay_days: number of days canceled for inclement weather
in Maytotal_days: number of days canceled for the school
yeartotal_snow: total inches of snow during the school
yearRows: 47
Columns: 16
$ year <chr> "1975-1976", "1976-1977", "1977-1978", "1978-1979", "1979-1…
$ fall <dbl> 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984,…
$ start_date <date> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
$ end_date <date> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
$ aug_days <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2,…
$ sep_days <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,…
$ oct_days <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,…
$ nov_days <dbl> 0, 1, 4, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0,…
$ dec_days <dbl> 0, 4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 6, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 8, 0, 0, 6, 1, 0,…
$ jan_days <dbl> 3, 21, 17, 8, 2, 7, 6, 5, 2, 8, 8, 9, 6, 3, 1, 2, 2, 0, 11,…
$ feb_days <dbl> 3, 7, 13, 11, 7, 5, 0, 8, 6, 6, 3, 7, 1, 5, 0, 2, 1, 2, 1, …
$ mar_days <dbl> 1, 0, 3, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 4, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 3, 5, 1, 1,…
$ apr_days <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,…
$ may_days <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,…
$ total_days <dbl> 7, 33, 39, 19, 11, 13, 13, 16, 13, 16, 12, 22, 10, 9, 11, 4…
$ total_snow <dbl> 19.0, 47.5, 55.4, 52.0, 36.0, 45.6, 53.5, 63.5, 43.0, 40.0,…# A tibble: 6 × 16
year fall start_date end_date aug_days sep_days oct_days nov_d…¹ dec_d…²
<chr> <dbl> <date> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 1975-1976 1975 NA NA 0 0 0 0 0
2 1976-1977 1976 NA NA 0 0 0 1 4
3 1977-1978 1977 NA NA 0 0 0 4 2
4 1978-1979 1978 NA NA 0 0 0 0 0
5 1979-1980 1979 NA NA 0 0 0 0 0
6 1980-1981 1980 NA NA 0 0 0 0 0
# … with 7 more variables: jan_days <dbl>, feb_days <dbl>, mar_days <dbl>,
# apr_days <dbl>, may_days <dbl>, total_days <dbl>, total_snow <dbl>, and
# abbreviated variable names ¹nov_days, ²dec_days# A tibble: 6 × 16
year fall start_date end_date aug_days sep_d…¹ oct_d…² nov_d…³ dec_d…⁴
<chr> <dbl> <date> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2016-2017 2016 2016-08-22 2017-06-01 0 0 0 0 0
2 2017-2018 2017 2017-08-21 2018-06-08 0 0 0 0 4
3 2018-2019 2018 2018-08-20 2019-06-12 0 1 0 4 6
4 2019-2020 2019 2019-08-19 2020-05-29 0 0 0 1 3
5 2020-2021 2020 2020-08-17 2021-05-26 0 0 0 0 1
6 2021-2022 2021 2020-08-16 2021-05-26 0 0 0 0 0
# … with 7 more variables: jan_days <dbl>, feb_days <dbl>, mar_days <dbl>,
# apr_days <dbl>, may_days <dbl>, total_days <dbl>, total_snow <dbl>, and
# abbreviated variable names ¹sep_days, ²oct_days, ³nov_days, ⁴dec_days