Lafayette School Corporation Snow Day Predictor

Q: When does Lafayette call a snow day?

Lafayette announces closings Normally by 5:30 a.m., after the transportation director checks roads early that morning, by its own published protocol.

Q: How does Lafayette announce a snow day?

By radio, local TV and the district website, and on the district’s own closings page.

Q: How many snow days does Lafayette have built in?

1 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “Snow Make-Up Day if Needed”.

Q: When is the last day of school for Lafayette?

May 21, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Lafayette get?

About 15.3 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.8 miles away, averaged over 9 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.6 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.

Q: How does the Lafayette snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Lafayette 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 Lafayette’s own big snow morning: 2.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.8 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Lafayette close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Lafayette.

The Lafayette playbook

How Lafayette calls a snow day

When the call comes

Normally by 5:30 a.m., after the transportation director checks roads early that morning.

“The decision is made as early as possible, but normally by 5:30 a.m.”

Source

How families hear

By radio, local TV and the district website.

“Once a decision is made, radio and television stations are notified and the website is changed. Additionally, the announcement is recorded on the transportation switchboard (765-771-6059) and a messaging system relays the information to staff and parents.”

Transportation: Closing and Delays

1 built in snow day

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Snow Make-Up Day if Needed”.

“Snow days added to end of Quarter 4 ... Snow Make-Up Day if Needed April 23”

Source

Making up a lost day

Snow days are added to the end of the fourth quarter, and April 23 is marked as a snow make-up day if needed.

“Snow days added to end of Quarter 4 ... Snow Make-Up Day if Needed April 23”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 6, 2026
Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
Last day May 21, 2027

District calendar

Read from Lafayette’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is lsc.k12.in.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Lafayette’s snow record

15.3inches of snow a winter

1.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.3with 4 in or more

2.5 ina big snow morning in Lafayette: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

0.7Nov

3.5Dec

5.5Jan

4.2Feb

0.6Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 10 in on February 16, 2021
Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 29.4 in
6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
1 in mornings 3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.8 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

The Indiana rule

How Indiana counts a lost day

Indiana requires at least 180 student instructional days a school year.

The Indiana rules in the agency’s own words, and every Indiana district

Next door

Districts near Lafayette

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Tippecanoe School CorporationLafayette	15.3 in	0.3	1
Delphi Community School CorporationDelphi	21.1 in	0.5
Carroll Consolidated School CorporationFlora	21.1 in	0.5
North Montgomery Community School CorporationCrawfordsville	18.6 in	0.5
Twin Lakes School CorporationMonticello	16.4 in	0.5
Frankfort Community SchoolsFrankfort	17.9 in	0.4

The schools

12 schools

Every school in Lafayette follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

Jefferson High School

Middle

Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate
Lafayette Tecumseh Jr High School

Elementary

Glen Acres Elementary School
Miami Elementary School
Edgelea Elementary School
Amelia Earhart Elementary School
Vinton Elementary School
Thomas Miller Elementary School
Murdock Elementary School
Oakland Elementary School

Other schools

Greater Lafayette Area SE

Questions

Lafayette snow day questions

When does Lafayette call a snow day?

How does Lafayette announce a snow day?

How many snow days does Lafayette have built in?

When is the last day of school for Lafayette?

How much snow does Lafayette get?

How does the Lafayette snow day predictor work?

How does Indiana handle snow days?

More winter

More for Indiana snow days

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle — The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.