SALISBURY — As educators look toward a potentially soggy last week of school across Rowan County, planners are hard at work preparing bad-weather alternatives for Saturday’s graduation ceremonies.

Six Rowan-Salisbury schools have scheduled commencements at 8 a.m. Saturday — Henderson Independent, West Rowan, South Rowan, East Rowan, Salisbury and Carson high schools. Of these, all but Henderson Independent’s were slated to be outdoors in the schools’ football stadiums.

Henderson’s ceremony will be at the Wallace Educational Forum board room.

This year will mark the fifth consecutive time the remaining schools have hosted their ceremonies on school grounds. In 2015, the commencements were moved out of Catawba College’s Keppel Auditorium because of a swarm of honey bees there.

The five-year streak of school-based graduations will not be undone, according to Rowan-Salisbury Schools. Officials said Tuesday that in the event of rainy weather, ceremonies will be moved inside the schools’ gyms and auditoriums.

The calls will be made Thursday or Friday, but the alternate plans could limit the number of guests students are allowed to bring. At Carson High, for example, a bad-weather call would limit students to six tickets — four for the gym, where the ceremony will be, and two for an overflow room in the auditorium, where the ceremony will be streamed.

“We will make every effort to try to have graduation in the stadium, as we want every family member and friend to share in the joy of this special occasion,” said Carson Principal Angelo DelliSanti in a letter to seniors and parents Tuesday. “However, we need to be ready with alternate plans in case that is not possible.”

DelliSanti said seniors will receive their tickets during graduation practice on Friday, stressing that lost tickets would not be reissued.

He also said additional tickets would not be given regardless of the reason.

Tentative plans are similar at other schools. Salisbury High will also offer four tickets to the gymnasium, and South Rowan will offer five.

Plans at East and West Rowan were not officially released by press time Tuesday.

According to Rowan County Weather forecaster Steve Monday, predicting the weather for early morning Saturday is “just flipping a coin.”

“The European model shows it soaking wet all day Saturday, but the (global forecast system) shows it dry in the morning,” Monday said. “These two will come more in agreement over the next 24 to 36 hours.”

Monday said the coming agreement in the two models should give planners plenty of time to make a fair call before Saturday’s ceremonies.

“By late (today) and early Thursday, we should have a good indication of which direction the weather’s going to go,” Monday said.