284 Kansas school districts, each read against its own snow
Kansas Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings for any Kansas ZIP, with every district’s snow record and the rules Kansas sets for a lost day.
Your district, your mornings
Snow day odds for your Kansas ZIP
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The state’s biggest districts, each read against its own forecast and its own big snow morning.
Kansas requires 186 school days (181 for seniors), or by board policy 1,116 school hours for grades 1 to 11 (1,086 for seniors, 465 for kindergarten).
“a school term during which public school shall be maintained in each school year by each school district organized under the laws of this state shall consist of not less than 186 school days for pupils attending kindergarten or any of the grades one through 11”
Once the board's scheduled snow make-up days are used up, extra weather closures count as school days, up to the number of make-up days scheduled or five days, whichever is smaller.
“not to exceed whichever is the lesser of (1) the number of compensatory days or hours scheduled by the board or (2) five days or the number of school hours regularly scheduled in five days, that schools remain closed due to such conditions shall be considered school days”
A board may build in any number of extra days or hours to cover expected closures for hazardous driving conditions.
“a board may schedule any number of days or hours in excess of the regularly scheduled school days or school hours which the board determines will be necessary to compensate for those school days or school hours that schools of the district will remain closed”
If the board closes school during the day for hazardous driving, the time students already attended counts as a school day, or as that many hours.
“The amount of time pupils have been in attendance when such determination is made shall be considered a school day of a school term or shall be considered the number of school hours for pupils to be in attendance at school in a day, whichever is applicable.”
Ranked by weekday mornings from December through March with 4 inches or more of new snow at the 7 am reading, averaged over ten winters at each district’s nearest NOAA weather station.
4 Kansas districts print a number of snow days on their own 2026 to 2027 calendars. A closing inside that number leaves the calendar as printed; one past it is made up, usually from a break or the end of the year.
Snow a winter and 4 inch mornings come from each district’s nearest NOAA weather station over ten winters. Built in days are the district’s own, read from its calendar. Every linked district has a page with its live odds, its snow record and its schools.
Arkansas City Unified School District 470Arkansas City
2,917
8.8 in
0.1
Piper-Kansas City Unified School District 203Kansas City
2,774
14.9 in
0.2
Buhler Unified School District 313Buhler
2,572
11.4 in
0.3
Bonner Springs Unified School District 204Bonner Springs
2,560
15.1 in
0.8
Lansing Unified School District 469Lansing
2,511
14.9 in
0.2
McPherson Unified School District 418McPherson
2,263
11.7 in
0.2
Ottawa Unified School District 290Ottawa
2,241
10 in
0.2
Winfield Unified School District 465Winfield
2,106
7.7 in
0.3
Circle Unified School District 375Towanda
2,087
6.2 in
0.3
Tonganoxie Unified School District 464Tonganoxie
2,010
15.1 in
0.8
Renwick Unified School District 267Andale
1,980
11.6 in
0.5
Augusta Unified School District 402Augusta
1,963
4.9 in
0.2
El Dorado Unified School District 490El Dorado
1,838
8 in
0.4
Independence Unified School District 446Independence
1,828
4.4 in
0.1
Mulvane Unified School District 263Mulvane
1,819
4.3 in
0.1
Paola Unified School District 368Paola
1,810
9.1 in
0.2
Chanute Public Schools Unified School District 413Chanute
1,798
6.6 in
0.3
Coffeyville Unified School District 445Coffeyville
1,784
5 in
0.2
Fort Scott Unified School District 234Fort Scott
1,764
7 in
0.2
Louisburg Unified School District 416Louisburg
1,760
13.1 in
0.4
Jefferson West Unified School District 340Meriden
1,715
15.5 in
0.5
Rose Hill Public Schools Unified School District 394Rose Hill
1,703
12.3 in
0.7
Eudora Unified School District 491Eudora
1,696
14 in
0.7
Wamego Unified School District 320Wamego
1,659
16.4 in
0.4
Fort Leavenworth Unified School District 207Fort Leavenworth
1,648
14.9 in
0.2
Elkhart Unified School District 218Elkhart
1,618
12.1 in
0.2
Ulysses Unified School District 214Ulysses
1,532
13.6 in
0.3
Labette County Unified School District 506Altamont
1,518
6.6 in
0.5
Wellington Unified School District 353Wellington
1,500
7.1 in
0.2
Atchison Public Schools Unified School District 409Atchison
1,476
13.6 in
0.4
Abilene Unified School District 435Abilene
1,469
14 in
0.3
Baldwin City Unified School District 348Baldwin City
1,442
14 in
0.7
Rock Creek Unified School District 323St. George
1,337
16.4 in
0.4
Clay Center Unified School District 379Clay Center
1,334
12.2 in
0.5
Parsons Unified School District 503Parsons
1,334
8.7 in
0.6
Pratt Unified School District 382Pratt
1,281
10.8 in
0.6
Iola Unified School District 257Iola
1,180
6 in
0.1
Smoky Valley Unified School District 400Lindsborg
1,180
14.6 in
0.4
Holton Unified School District 336Holton
1,170
9.8 in
0.2
Concordia Unified School District 333Concordia
1,138
21.4 in
0.8
Chapman Unified School District 473Chapman
1,132
10.7 in
0.3
Kaw Valley Unified School District 321St. Marys
1,119
15.8 in
0.3
Clearwater Unified School District 264Clearwater
1,092
11.7 in
0.4
Santa Fe Trail Unified School District 434Scranton
1,074
13.2 in
0.1
Central Plains Unified School District 112Claflin
1,071
11.7 in
0.3
Osawatomie Unified School District 367Osawatomie
1,047
9.1 in
0.2
Nickerson Unified School District 309Hutchinson
1,038
5.3 in
0.3
Hugoton Public Schools Unified School District 210Hugoton
1,001
10 in
0.6
Humboldt Unified School District 258Humboldt
1,000
7.2 in
0.2
Columbus Unified School District 493Columbus
990
4.8 in
0.4
Girard Unified School District 248Girard
989
5.3 in
0.2
Holcomb Unified School District 363Holcomb
984
16.1 in
0.6
Frontenac Public Schools Unified School District 249Frontenac
982
6 in
0.3
Scott County Unified School District 466Scott City
962
15.9 in
0.6
Garnett Unified School District 365Garnett
951
12.7 in
0.3
Colby Public Schools Unified School District 315Colby
944
20.8 in
0.8
Prairie Hills Unified School District 113Sabetha
925
10.7 in
0.3
Kingman-Norwich Unified School District 331Kingman
921
11 in
0.3
Prairie View Unified School District 362LaCygne
917
11 in
0.4
Goodland Unified School District 352Goodland
913
23.8 in
0.6
Hiawatha Unified School District 415Hiawatha
881
8.8 in
0.3
Beloit Unified School District 273Beloit
879
15.2 in
0.5
Baxter Springs Unified School District 508Baxter Springs
867
4.8 in
0.4
Fort Larned Unified School District 495Larned
864
13.6 in
0.4
Royal Valley Unified School District 337Mayetta
852
9.8 in
0.2
Chaparral Schools Unified School District 361Anthony
835
7.6 in
0.2
Hesston Unified School District 460Hesston
831
7.8 in
0.1
Wellsville Unified School District 289Wellsville
826
10 in
0.2
Burlington Unified School District 244Burlington
819
12.5 in
0.2
Halstead Unified School District 440Halstead
811
5.4 in
0.3
Cheney Unified School District 268Cheney
810
4.5 in
0.2
Haven Public Schools Unified School District 312Haven
798
11.6 in
0.5
Russell County Unified School District 407Russell
790
8.3 in
0.2
Perry Public Schools Unified School District 343Perry
789
14.2 in
0.7
Marysville Unified School District 364Marysville
785
13.7 in
0.3
Caney Valley Unified School District 436Caney
783
7.3 in
0.1
Nemaha Unified School District 115Seneca
782
17.6 in
0.9
Galena Unified School District 499Galena
781
8 in
0.4
Neodesha Unified School District 461Neodesha
774
7.1 in
0.2
Morris County Unified School District 417Council Grove
772
5.2 in
0.3
Hoisington Unified School District 431Hoisington
732
12.8 in
0.2
Riley County Unified School District 378Riley
712
12.6 in
0.4
Osage City Unified School District 420Osage City
704
11.7 in
0.5
Lyons Unified School District 405Lyons
701
13.2 in
0.7
Silver Lake Unified School District 372Silver Lake
701
10.2 in
0.5
Norton Community Schools Unified School District 211Norton
699
17 in
0.5
Riverton Unified School District 404Riverton
696
4.8 in
0.4
Cherryvale Unified School District 447Cherryvale
692
5.3 in
0.2
Southeast of Saline Unified School District 306Gypsum
683
13.2 in
0.5
Easton Unified School District 449Easton
674
13.6 in
0.4
Riverside Unified School District 114Elwood
654
15.3 in
0.4
Vermillion Unified School District 380Vermillion
647
16.7 in
0.2
Ellsworth Unified School District 327Ellsworth
646
11.7 in
0.4
Lakin Unified School District 215Lakin
633
16.1 in
0.8
Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh Unified School District 410Hillsboro
629
12.5 in
0.3
Douglass Public Schools Unified School District 396Douglass
624
8.9 in
0.5
Fredonia Unified School District 484Fredonia
621
2.2 in
0.1
North Ottawa County Unified School District 239Minneapolis
621
15.3 in
0.3
Twin Valley Unified School District 240Bennington
613
15.3 in
0.3
West Franklin Unified School District 287Pomona
611
9.3 in
0.7
Cimarron-Ensign Unified School District 102Cimarron
610
13.7 in
0.3
West Elk Unified School District 282Howard
607
3 in
0
Jayhawk Unified School District 346Mound City
594
11 in
0.4
Kismet-Plains Unified School District 483Kismet
575
6.9 in
0.4
Southern Lyon County Unified School District 252Hartford
572
12.5 in
0.2
Central Heights Unified School District 288Richmond
566
9.1 in
0.2
Phillipsburg Unified School District 325Phillipsburg
565
13.5 in
0.8
Eureka Unified School District 389Eureka
560
4.4 in
0.1
Centre Unified School District 397Lost Springs
555
10.5 in
0.4
Belle Plaine Unified School District 357Belle Plaine
550
7.2 in
0.2
Oskaloosa Public Schools Unified School District 341Oskaloosa
537
14.2 in
0.2
Marion-Florence Unified School District 408Marion
531
8.7 in
0.1
Republic County-Hillcrest Rural Schools Unified School District 109Belleville
529
14.1 in
0.6
South Brown County Unified School District 430Horton
528
7.7 in
0.3
Syracuse Unified School District 494Syracuse
526
15.3 in
0.3
Bluestem Unified School District 205Leon
523
10.4 in
0.3
Barnes Unified School District 223Barnes
520
14.4 in
0.5
Moundridge Unified School District 423Moundridge
518
7.8 in
0.1
Atchison County Community Schools Unified School District 377Effingham
514
15.5 in
0.5
North Jackson Unified School District 335Holton
511
9.8 in
0.2
Remington-Whitewater Unified School District 206Whitewater
511
10.4 in
0.4
Sterling Unified School District 376Sterling
511
13.2 in
0.7
Sedgwick Public Schools Unified School District 439Sedgwick
505
5.4 in
0.3
Oswego Unified School District 504Oswego
495
4.4 in
0.3
Lebo-Waverly Unified School District 243Waverly
488
9 in
0.5
Barber County North Unified School District 254Medicine Lodge
478
7.8 in
0.3
Ellinwood Public Schools Unified School District 355Ellinwood
475
11.7 in
0.3
Jefferson County North Unified School District 339Winchester
465
15.5 in
0.5
Oxford Unified School District 358Oxford
464
6.8 in
0.2
Erie-Galesburg Unified School District 101Erie
462
8.6 in
0.5
Northeast Unified School District 246Arma
462
5.3 in
0.2
Uniontown Unified School District 235Uniontown
462
9.2 in
0.1
Cherokee Unified School District 247Cherokee
461
6 in
0.3
Smith Center Unified School District 237Smith Center
455
15.3 in
0.5
Inman Unified School District 448Inman
451
11.4 in
0.3
Mission Valley Unified School District 330Eskridge
447
15.8 in
0.5
Woodson Unified School District 366Yates Center
443
9.6 in
0.1
McLouth Unified School District 342McLouth
442
14.2 in
0.7
Hoxie Community Schools Unified School District 412Hoxie
432
22.8 in
0.9
Oakley Unified School District 274Oakley
432
20.2 in
0.6
Lyndon Unified School District 421Lyndon
430
9.3 in
0.7
Plainville Unified School District 270Plainville
430
22.4 in
0.7
Stanton County Unified School District 452Johnson
425
12.9 in
0.4
Wabaunsee Unified School District 329Alma
425
15.8 in
0.3
Ell-Saline Unified School District 307Brookville
423
15.2 in
0.5
Herington Unified School District 487Herington
414
10.2 in
0.2
Oberlin Unified School District 294Oberlin
410
22.6 in
0.8
Valley Heights Unified School District 498Blue Rapids
406
13.2 in
0.2
Chetopa-St. Paul Unified School District 505Chetopa
402
6.9 in
0.4
WaKeeney Unified School District 208WaKeeney
401
22 in
0.9
Leoti Unified School District 467Leoti
393
24.1 in
1
Valley Falls Unified School District 338Valley Falls
391
14.2 in
0.2
Chase County Unified School District 284Cottonwood Falls
390
11.5 in
0.4
Doniphan West Unified School District 111Highland
390
15.8 in
0.3
Graham County Unified School District 281Hill City
390
17.4 in
0.3
Sublette Unified School District 374Sublette
383
6.9 in
0.4
Rock Hills Unified School District 107Mankato
381
16.8 in
0.3
Chautauqua County Community Unified School District 286Sedan
380
5.1 in
0
Conway Springs Unified School District 356Conway Springs
378
6.5 in
0.1
Solomon Unified School District 393Solomon
376
14 in
0.3
Rawlins County Unified School District 105Atwood
375
21.9 in
1.1
Meade Unified School District 226Meade
368
7 in
0.2
Canton-Galva Unified School District 419Canton
366
9.1 in
0.2
Spearville Unified School District 381Spearville
364
12.8 in
0.6
Osborne County Unified School District 392Osborne
362
11.4 in
0.6
Washington Co. Schools Unified School District 108Washington
362
14.4 in
0.5
St. John-Hudson Unified School District 350St. John
355
13.9 in
0.8
Pleasanton Unified School District 344Pleasanton
349
11 in
0.4
Ellis Unified School District 388Ellis
346
16.5 in
0.4
Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton Unified School District 322Onaga
342
17.6 in
0.5
Lincoln Unified School District 298Lincoln
338
14 in
0.3
Skyline Schools Unified School District 438Pratt
335
6.4 in
0.3
North Lyon County Unified School District 251Americus
330
6.3 in
0.4
Troy Public Schools Unified School District 429Troy
327
15.8 in
0.3
Waconda Unified School District 272Cawker City
327
11.4 in
0.6
Comanche County Unified School District 300Coldwater
322
9 in
0.4
Quinter Public Schools Unified School District 293Quinter
321
19.1 in
0.4
Clifton-Clyde Unified School District 224Clyde
314
12.7 in
0.4
Kinsley-Offerle Unified School District 347Kinsley
305
12.7 in
0.8
Udall Unified School District 463Udall
304
6.8 in
0.2
Central Unified School District 462Burden
302
6.2 in
0.2
St. Francis Community Schools Unified School District 297St Francis
302
12.6 in
0.7
Pretty Prairie Unified School District 311Pretty Prairie
301
7.9 in
0.3
Stockton Unified School District 271Stockton
301
22.4 in
0.7
Sylvan Grove Unified School District 299Sylvan Grove
294
4.5 in
0.4
Goessel Unified School District 411Goessel
290
9.1 in
0.2
Dexter Unified School District 471Dexter
287
6.2 in
0.2
Burlingame Public School Unified School District 454Burlingame
285
13.2 in
0.1
Rural Vista Unified School District 481White City
285
15.8 in
0.6
Little River Unified School District 444Little River
283
10 in
0.3
LaCrosse Unified School District 395La Crosse
281
14.8 in
0.5
Kiowa County Unified School District 422Greensburg
280
10.6 in
0.6
Ness City Unified School District 303Ness City
280
15.1 in
0.3
Victoria Unified School District 432Victoria
276
16.5 in
0.3
Fairfield Unified School District 310Langdon
273
7.6 in
0.1
Hodgeman County Schools Unified School District 227Jetmore
273
16.2 in
0.7
Flinthills Unified School District 492Rosalia
270
12.3 in
0.5
Marmaton Valley Unified School District 256Moran
270
9.2 in
0.1
Blue Valley Unified School District 384Randolph
267
13.3 in
0.4
Crest Unified School District 479Colony
261
6.9 in
0
Deerfield Unified School District 216Deerfield
248
16.1 in
0.8
Minneola Unified School District 219Minneola
245
9.6 in
0.2
Dighton Unified School District 482Dighton
244
20 in
0.6
Satanta Unified School District 507Satanta
244
13.8 in
0.3
Stafford Unified School District 349Stafford
242
3.7 in
0.1
Caldwell Unified School District 360Caldwell
241
6.2 in
0.1
Greeley County Schools Unified School District 200Tribune
241
19.5 in
0.7
Cunningham Unified School District 332Cunningham
230
8.3 in
0.2
Madison-Virgil Unified School District 386Madison
230
10.6 in
0.3
Pike Valley Unified School District 426Scandia
228
14.1 in
0.6
Bucklin Unified School District 459Bucklin
221
12.9 in
0.7
Ingalls Unified School District 477Ingalls
220
13.7 in
0.3
Peabody-Burns Unified School District 398Peabody
219
9.7 in
0.1
South Barber Unified School District 255Kiowa
217
8.7 in
0.3
South Haven Unified School District 509South Haven
217
6.2 in
0.1
Ashland Unified School District 220Ashland
213
5.4 in
0.2
Otis-Bison Unified School District 403Otis
203
14.3 in
0.4
Marais des Cygnes Valley Unified School District 456Melvern
199
9 in
0.5
Macksville Unified School District 351Macksville
184
13.6 in
0.4
Thunder Ridge Unified School District 110Kensington
179
16.7 in
0.6
Wallace County Schools Unified School District 241Sharon Springs
172
23.5 in
0.7
Leroy-Gridley Unified School District 245LeRoy
170
12.5 in
0.2
Attica Unified School District 511Attica
161
4.2 in
0.1
Cheylin Unified School District 103Bird City
161
12.6 in
0.7
Golden Plains Unified School District 316Rexford
159
22.8 in
0.9
Northern Valley Unified School District 212Almena
159
17 in
0.5
Altoona-Midway Unified School District 387Buffalo
148
2.2 in
0.1
Montezuma Unified School District 371Montezuma
147
12.6 in
0.4
Moscow Public Schools Unified School District 209Moscow
142
10 in
0.6
Burrton Unified School District 369Burrton
140
11.6 in
0.5
Argonia Public Schools Unified School District 359Argonia
137
8.6 in
0.5
Cedar Vale Unified School District 285Cedar Vale
137
6.2 in
0.2
Chase-Raymond Unified School District 401Chase
129
13.2 in
0.7
Logan Unified School District 326Logan
129
18.8 in
0.9
Pawnee Heights Unified School District 496Rozel
129
11 in
0.5
Southern Cloud Unified School District 334Miltonvale
127
17.2 in
0.6
Western Plains Unified School District 106Ransom
127
17 in
0.7
Weskan Unified School District 242Weskan
125
18.5 in
0.3
Elk Valley Unified School District 283Longton
124
6.5 in
0.2
Brewster Unified School District 314Brewster
110
20.8 in
0.8
Wheatland Unified School District 292Grainfield
99
20.2 in
0.6
Paradise Unified School District 399Natoma
97
16.3 in
0.6
Rolla Unified School District 217Rolla
92
12.1 in
0.2
Hamilton Unified School District 390Hamilton
89
4.3 in
0
Palco Unified School District 269Damar
85
22.4 in
0.7
Copeland Unified School District 476Copeland
84
12.6 in
0.4
Haviland Unified School District 474Haviland
78
6.9 in
0.3
Lewis Unified School District 502Lewis
78
12.7 in
0.8
Fowler Unified School District 225Fowler
74
9.6 in
0.2
Triplains Unified School District 275Winona
73
8.3 in
0.2
Grinnell Public Schools Unified School District 291Grinnell
59
22.8 in
0.9
Healy Public Schools Unified School District 468Healy
19
20 in
0.6
Questions
Kansas snow day questions
Kansas requires 186 school days (181 for seniors), or by board policy 1,116 school hours for grades 1 to 11 (1,086 for seniors, 465 for kindergarten).
Once the board's scheduled snow make-up days are used up, extra weather closures count as school days, up to the number of make-up days scheduled or five days, whichever is smaller.
A board may build in any number of extra days or hours to cover expected closures for hazardous driving conditions.
If the board closes school during the day for hazardous driving, the time students already attended counts as a school day, or as that many hours.
All 284 in the state, by ZIP, with a page of their own for 31, including Wichita, Olathe and Shawnee Mission. Every page carries the district’s own snow record and the odds for its next three school mornings.
A typical Kansas district sees about 1.2 weekday mornings a winter with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.4 with 4 inches or more, counted on weekdays from December 1 through March 31 at each district’s nearest NOAA weather station over ten winters. The snowiest districts in the table see several times that.
Three school mornings, as far as the National Weather Service hourly forecast reaches. Weekends and the district’s winter break are skipped, so a Friday storm is read for Monday’s buses.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for your ZIP through the night and the bus hours, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against what counts as a big morning for your district. The state rules come from the Kansas State Department of Education and the state code.
