Adams-Arapahoe School District 28J Snow Day Predictor

Adams-Arapahoe 28J announces closings A recommendation goes to the superintendent by 4:30 a.m.; a delay is announced the night before or by 5:30 a.m, by its own published protocol.

By phone call, text message, email, social media, local TV and the district website, and on the district’s own closings page.

A snow day in Adams-Arapahoe 28J is a day off: the district closes rather than going remote.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 27, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Aurora through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Adams-Arapahoe 28J’s own big snow morning: 4.4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2 miles away.

Colorado requires at least 160 days, with 1,080 scheduled hours in secondary school and 990 in elementary. The scheduled hours can drop to 1,056 (secondary), 968 (elementary), 870 (full-day kindergarten) or 435 (half-day kindergarten) to cover conferences, staff training and closings the board judges necessary for student health, safety or welfare.