Chesterfield County School Closings Today – Live Delays (Virginia)

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How Chesterfield County School Closings Are Announced

When severe weather threatens the Richmond area, Chesterfield County school closings today are typically announced first on the district’s own website at oneccps.org, where Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS) posts official closure, delay, and early-dismissal decisions for all of its 67 schools. CCPS also pushes closing and delay alerts directly to families through its ParentSquare communication platform, which the district adopted district-wide for school-to-home messaging, including weather alerts. Families who haven’t set up a ParentSquare account still receive district-wide emergency messages by default, since PowerSchool contact information syncs automatically into the system.

Beyond the district’s own channels, Chesterfield County school closings are typically picked up quickly by the three major Richmond-market TV stations: NBC12 (WWBT), 8News (WRIC), and CBS 6 (WTVR), each of which maintains a running list of area school closings during active winter weather or flooding events. Like most large Virginia county systems, CCPS aims to make closing and delay decisions as early as possible — often the evening before a widely forecast storm, or by early morning when road conditions from overnight precipitation are harder to predict — so families can arrange childcare and adjust morning routines. This page monitors all of these sources automatically so you don’t have to check each one separately.

Weather Risks That Can Close Chesterfield County Schools

• Winter storms and ice: Even a light glaze of ice on Chesterfield County’s hillier, more rural roads — especially outside the more built-up Midlothian and Chester areas — can make school bus routes unsafe, and ice is the single most common trigger for a full-district closure or delay here.
• Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes: Central Virginia sits in a secondary severe-weather corridor, and strong spring and summer thunderstorm complexes can bring damaging wind, hail, or an isolated tornado that disrupts bus routes or power to school buildings.
• Tropical storm and hurricane remnants: Chesterfield County is well inland, but the remnants of Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms moving up through Virginia in late summer and early fall can still bring heavy rain and flooding rivers strong enough to prompt an early dismissal or closure.
• Flash flooding: Heavy rain — whether from a slow-moving thunderstorm or a tropical system — can flood low-lying roads and creek crossings around the Appomattox and James River areas faster than road crews can respond, which sometimes forces a delayed start even without any winter weather involved.
• Extreme cold and wind chill: While less common than ice, a hard freeze or dangerously low wind chill at bus stops can occasionally prompt a delayed start, particularly after an overnight winter storm has already left roads compromised.

Frequently Asked Questions

How early does Chesterfield County Public Schools announce school closures?

Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS) tries to make closing, delay, or early-dismissal decisions as early as possible — often the evening before when a storm is well forecast, or very early in the morning when conditions like overnight ice are harder to assess ahead of time. Announcements go out through the district’s website, ParentSquare messages to families, and local Richmond-area TV and radio stations.

What’s the difference between a school closure and a delayed opening in Chesterfield County?

A closure means CCPS schools are not in session at all that day, with no makeup of the missed instructional time built into the daily schedule. A delayed opening means the school day starts later than usual — typically one or two hours — with a shortened but still-instructional day, so buses and drop-off times shift back accordingly.

Do all Chesterfield County schools close at the same time?

Yes. CCPS operates as a single countywide district, so a closure, delay, or early dismissal decision applies to all CCPS schools at once, rather than being decided school by school. Neighboring districts on this page — Henrico County, Richmond, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights — each make their own separate decisions, so it’s possible for CCPS to be open while a neighboring district is closed, or vice versa.

Which Richmond-area TV stations report Chesterfield County school closings?

NBC12 (WWBT), 8News (WRIC), and CBS 6 (WTVR) are the three major Richmond-market TV stations that maintain running school-closing lists during active winter storms or flooding events. This page automatically monitors all three, alongside each district’s own website, so you get the fastest available detection without checking multiple sources yourself.

How often is this page updated?

This page checks official sources automatically every 15 minutes under normal conditions, and every 5 minutes during an active weather alert, so status changes surface here quickly once a district makes a decision.

Are Chesterfield County, Henrico, Richmond, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights schools ever on different schedules from each other?

Yes — despite sharing the Richmond metro area, Chesterfield County, Henrico County, Richmond, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights are five separately governed school divisions, each with its own superintendent and closing policy. It’s common during a borderline weather event for some of these districts to close or delay while others stay open, which is why this page tracks all five separately rather than showing a single regional status.

Chesterfield-Area School Roster

Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS)

High Schools

• Thomas Dale High School
• Cosby High School
• Manchester High School
• Lloyd C. Bird High School
• Midlothian High School
• Meadowbrook High School
• James River High School
• Clover Hill High School
• Matoaca High School
• Monacan High School

CCPS also operates 13 specialty centers, two technical centers, a career academy (Carver College & Career Academy), and two Governor’s Schools that share campuses with or feed from the comprehensive high schools above.

Middle Schools

• Bailey Bridge Middle School
• Carver Middle School
• Elizabeth Davis Middle School
• Falling Creek Middle School
• Manchester Middle School
• Matoaca Middle School
• Midlothian Middle School
• Providence Middle School
• Robious Middle School
• Salem Church Middle School
• Swift Creek Middle School
• Tomahawk Creek Middle School

CCPS has 13 middle schools total; a 13th (in the Upper Magnolia Green/west-county area) had no confirmed public name as of this writing and is omitted rather than guessed.

Elementary Schools

• Alberta Smith Elementary School
• A.M. Davis Elementary School
• Beulah Elementary School
• Bellwood Elementary School
• Bensley Elementary School
• Bettie Weaver Elementary School
• Bon Air Elementary School
• Chalkley Elementary School
• Clover Hill Elementary School
• Crestwood Elementary School
• Curtis Elementary School
• Deep Creek Elementary School
• Ecoff Elementary School
• Enon Elementary School
• Ettrick Elementary School
• Evergreen Elementary School
• Falling Creek Elementary School
• O.B. Gates Elementary School
• W.W. Gordon Elementary School
• Grange Hall Elementary School
• Harrowgate Elementary School
• J.G. Hening Elementary School
• Jacobs Road Elementary School
• Moseley Elementary School
• Old Hundred Elementary School
• Salem Church Elementary School
• Elizabeth Scott Elementary School
• Spring Run Elementary School
• Swift Creek Elementary School
• J.B. Watkins Elementary School

CCPS has 41 elementary schools total; the list above is capped near 30 per our sourcing guidelines. Verify the complete roster at oneccps.org.

Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS)

High Schools

• Deep Run High School
• John Randolph Tucker High School
• Highland Springs High School
• Glen Allen High School
• Douglas S. Freeman High School
• Mills E. Godwin High School
• Hermitage High School
• Varina High School
• Henrico High School

Middle Schools

• George H. Moody Middle School
• Short Pump Middle School
• Tuckahoe Middle School
• Brookland Middle School
• Quioccasin Middle School
• Fairfield Middle School
• Holman Middle School
• Hungary Creek Middle School
• Pocahontas Middle School

Henrico’s 46-school elementary roster is not itemized here; verify the complete list at henricoschools.us.

Richmond Public Schools (RPS)

High Schools

• Armstrong High School
• Huguenot High School
• Richmond High School for the Arts
• Thomas Jefferson High School
• Richmond Community High School
• Franklin Military Academy
• Richmond Alternative School
• River City Middle College High School

RPS also operates 26 elementary and 7 middle schools not itemized here; verify the complete list at rvaschools.net.

Hopewell City Public Schools

High Schools

• Hopewell High School

Middle Schools

• Carter G. Woodson Middle School

Elementary Schools

• Dupont Elementary School
• Patrick Copeland Elementary School
• Harry E. James Elementary School
• Woodlawn Pre-School Learning Center

Colonial Heights Public Schools

High Schools

• Colonial Heights High School

Middle Schools

• Colonial Heights Middle School

Elementary Schools

• Tussing Elementary School
• Lakeview Elementary School
• North Elementary School