North Andover Schools Remote In Response To Forecast Foot Of Snow

NORTH ANDOVER, MA — All North Andover students will be remote Thursday due to the storm, the district announced.

Cohort A students will receive live remote instruction while Cohort B students will remain asynchronous.

North Andover was forecast to get as much as 18 inches of snow, according to the latest National Weather Service forecast.

The entire region was put under a winter storm warning, with 6 to 15 inches of snow expected. The North Andover area was forecast to get 12 to 18 inches.

Snowfall was forecast to be heaviest between midnight and 8 a.m. Thursday

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Local restrictions

The town declared a snow emergency. Here's what we know about how officials are handling the storm. Check the North Andover News for the most up-to-date information.

Snow emergency parking ban

Town officials declared a snow emergency parking ban, beginning midnight Wednesday. Parking is banned on all town streets except:

• Stonington Street: Parking on even side only
• Saunders Street: Parking on odd side only
• Lincoln Street: Parking on even side only
• Perry Street: Parking on even side only
• Church Street: Parking on odd side only
• Ashland Street: Parking on odd side only
• Annis Street: Parking on even side only
• Thorndike Road (from Sutton Street to Troy Road): Parking on odd side only
• Marblehead Street (from Union Street to Middlesex Street): Parking on odd side
• only
• Union Street (from Beverly Street to Marblehead Street): Parking on even side
• only
• Norman Road: Parking on even side only
• Stevens Street (400 block): Parking on odd side only
• Beverly Street from Middlesex to Union: Parking on even side only.
• Beverley Street from Union Street to the Dead End: Parking on odd side only.

The sidewalk on the odd side of Beverly Street from Middlesex to Union Street is closed during the snow emergency, and parking is permitted on this sidewalk. Parking is banned on all other sidewalks.

Parking will be permitted in municipal lots for no more than 48 hours.

Read the town order for more detail.

Trash collection delay

Trash collection is delayed one day, beginning Thursday.

School cancellations

All North Andover students will be remote Thursday due to the storm, the district announced.

Cohort A students will receive live remote instruction while Cohort B students will remain asynchronous.

During a normal year, the news of a snow storm heading for North Andover would bring on the prospect that school could be canceled. Amid the pandemic and with an online school system in place, that prospect in North Andover dimmed.

This year, because of hybrid and distance learning models in place, the state has granted permission to districts to shift to a "distance learning day" instead of canceling in-person school because of inclement weather. This day will count as a day of school and will not need to be made up later.

In North Andover, schools will switch to remote learning, if the weather makes it difficult or unsafe for students and staff to go to school, the district said. But if there are power outages that affect online learning, the school system will cancel school; those days will have to be made up out of the five built-in make-up days at the end of the year.

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