Several East Tennessee schools districts have canceled classes multiple times because of winter weather and widespread illness this year.
School districts typically build in a number days they can cancel throughout the year and not have to make them up. But after so many weather and flu cancellations this year, those built in days are starting to run out.
Some school districts said they have plans for what they'll do once they use all of the built-in days. Others said they may make a decision once it comes down to it.
Here is a look at the number of built-in days remaining for these East Tennessee school districts:
Alcoa City Schools
- 10 built-in days
- Five days have been used
- The school district will add extra days at the end of the school year.
Athens City Schools
- 10 built-in days
- Four days have been used
- The school district said it may use a professional development day in May or add an additional day of class to the end of the school year.
Claiborne County Schools
- 13 built-in days
- The school district will add days during the school year rather than at the end of the year if it uses up all built-in days.
Clinton City Schools
- 10 built-in days
- Nine days have been used
- The school district will use in-service days as instruction days, and if it has to, it will add more days to the end of the year.
Cocke County Schools
- 10 built-in days
- The school district plans to use days from its usual breaks, add time to the school day or will add days to the end of the school year if it uses all of their built-in days.
Cumberland County Schools
- 13 built-in days
- The school district will meet with the board if it uses all built-in days. It mentioned it would either add days at the end of the school year or extend the school day as options.
Etowah City School
- 10 built-in days
- Ten have been used
- The school district said that they will add at end of year in June or discuss with teachers if part of Spring Break should be used.
Grainger County Schools
- 10 built-in days
- Ten have been used
- The school district said it has four or five days during the school year it can work with. It does not plan to use any days from spring break. The district decided to have school on February 19th, in order to gain an extra day.
Greeneville City Schools
- 13 days, 8 are for inclement weather and 5 are for professional days
- Four have been used
- The school district has three snow make-up days if all eight days are used.
Hamblen County Schools
- 13 days
- Seven have been used
- The school district said it has not had to come up with a plan in 15 years. The district would go to the Hamblen County Board of Education to discuss a potential decision if it uses all built-in days.
Hawkins County Schools
- 13 days, 11 for inclement weather and two for faculty days
- The district will go to the Hawkins County Board of Education for an exact plan on what will happen. The district mentioned it could add three days at the end of the school year, add 30 minutes to a school day or use a holiday for make-up.
Jefferson County Schools
- 10 built-in days
- Twelve days have been used, 10 for weather and 2 for illness
- Trying to request waiver from Commissioner of Education and if no waiver is granted, the school district will use winter break days or in service days.
Knox County Schools
- 10 built-in days
- Eight days have been used
- The school district said a decision will be made once all the days have been used.
Maryville City Schools
- 13 days, five dedicated to snow days
- Four of the five snow days have been used
- The school district said it will avoid adding days to the end of the school year and will use two days prior to spring break. That would be March 8-9.
McMinn County Schools
- 13 days, 10 snow days, three for faculty
- Ten of 10 snow days have been used
- It will add school days at the end of the year if more than two days after the built-in days have been used. If it is more than two days, it will add more school days before Memorial Day or during an in-service day.
Monroe County Schools
- 9 built in days
- Ten days have been used
- The board voted to have a school day on May 22nd, an administrative day, to make up the day.
Morgan County Schools
- 13 built-in days
- Nine days have been used
- The school district said it will plan to add days to the end of the school year if it uses all its built-in days.
Newport City Schools
- 13 days, 10 for inclement weather and 3 for professional development
- Six out of the ten days have been used
- The school district said it will plan to add days at the end of the year. The district said it rarely ends up using all its built-in days.
Oak Ridge City Schools
- 6 built-in days
- Four days have been used
- The school district said a decision will be made once all the days have been used.
Oneida Special School District
- 13 built-in days
- Eight of those days have been used
- The school district said it will add days at the end of the school year if they go over the 13 days.
Scott County Schools
- 13 built-in days
- Ten days have been used
- The school district said it will either use days during Spring Break or add school days to the end of the year if it ends up using all its built-in days.
Sevier County Schools
- 13 built-in days
- Nine days have been used
- The school district said it will either extend the school day, the school year, or have school on a Saturday
Sweetwater City Schools
- 13 days, nine emergency closing days, four professional development days
- The district said it plans to either add school days to the end of the school year. It may have to request to use holidays and breaks as school days from the state department.
Union County Schools
- 10 built-in days
- Ten days have been used
- 10News did not hear a response on how the school district will plan ahead in case all built-in days are used.
Other school districts have yet to respond to 10News about how many built-in days are remaining and plans on what to do when all built-in days are used.