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School closings: Delays, early dismissals for NJ, NY as flood threat looms

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Updated  January 10, 2024 7:56am EST
Severe Weather
FOX 5 NY
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NEW JERSEY - Several school districts in New York and New Jersey are opening late Wednesday after a storm brought flooding and power outages to the New York City area.

Live closing/delay updates here

Latest coverage of the storm here

New York

Brewster School District

All Brewster Central School District schools are on a two-hour delay. School bus pickup times will be two hours later than normal.

For more information on school start times, click HERE.

Ellenville School District

All Ellenville Central Schools will open on a two-hour delay.

Freeport Public Schools

All Freeport schools will be operating on a two-hour delay. This means that all children report to their schools or to their bus stop two hours later than their usual time.

All morning Pre-K classes are canceled. All dismissals will be at the usual time. 

Island Park Public Schools

Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School and Lincoln Orens Middle School, including the UPK program, will have a 10:30 a.m. delayed opening. 

Students that are transported to school on buses should report to their bus stop two hours after their regularly scheduled pick-up time.

New Jersey flood watch here

New Jersey

Lodi Public Schools

All Lodi Public Schools will be closed.

Bergen County Technical Schools

The Bergen County Technical Schools District will be having a 90-minute delayed opening.

Bergen County Special Services

Bergen County Special Services schools will have a 60-minute delayed opening.

Cliffside Park School District

The Cliffside Park School District will have a delayed opening. Staff must report at 9 a.m., while students report at 10 a.m.

Englewood Cliffs School District

Due to inclement weather, the Upper School will open at 10:15 am and North Cliff School at 10:30 am.

Fair Lawn Public Schools

Schools will open on a 90-minute delay. Before care is canceled.

Buses will operate on a delayed opening schedule. 

For official reporting times, click HERE. 

Montclair Public Schools

All MPS schools and offices will have a delayed opening. Bus route pick-up times will be delayed by two hours.

YMCA morning care will operate on a two-hour delay and will open at 9:30 a.m. in all elementary schools.

Riverdale Public Elementary

Riverdale Public School will have a delayed opening.

To access the delayed opening schedule, click HERE. 

Totowa School District

School officials announced Totowa School District will have a one-hour delayed opening.

For more information click HERE.

Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District

All Scotch Plains-Fanwood public schools will have a delayed opening. 

Also, the Right At School program will not be running before care. 

They will be holding aftercare as regularly scheduled.