Cherry Creek School District 5 Snow Day Predictor

Cherry Creek announces closings The superintendent decides by 5:30 a.m. and the decision is not changed after that, by its own published protocol.

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

1 hour: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 28, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 43.3 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.7 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Greenwood Village 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 Cherry Creek’s own big snow morning: 4.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.3 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.