Indianapolis, Indiana, 16,044 students in 21 schools

Perry Township Metropolitan School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When is the last day of school for Perry Township Metropolitan?

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

Q: How much snow does Indianapolis get?

About 15.2 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.3 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.4 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Perry Township Metropolitan?

7.7 inches on February 16, 2021, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 4.3 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 24.4 inches.

Q: How does the Perry Township Metropolitan snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Indianapolis 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 Perry Township Metropolitan’s own big snow morning: 1.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.3 miles away.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Perry Township Metropolitan, measured against Perry Township Metropolitan's own big snow morning of 1.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Perry Township Metropolitan close tomorrow?

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

The Perry Township Metropolitan playbook

How Perry Township Metropolitan calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

The calendar holds two snow make-up days whose dates are set later: one to be decided by January 11, 2027 and one by February 8, 2027.

“Snow Make-up Day to be determined by January 11, 2027 ... Snow Make-up Day to be determined by February 8, 2027”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day July 29, 2026
Winter break Dec 18 to Jan 1
Last day May 27, 2027

District calendar

Read from Perry Township Metropolitan’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is perryschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Perry Township Metropolitan’s snow record

15.2inches of snow a winter

0.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.4with 4 in or more

1.9 ina big snow morning in Perry Township Metropolitan: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

1.1Nov

2.2Dec

5.4Jan

3.9Feb

2Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 7.7 in on February 16, 2021
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 24.4 in
6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
1 in mornings 2.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.3 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 Perry Township Metropolitan

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Beech Grove City SchoolsBeech Grove	15.2 in	0.4
Greenwood Community School CorporationGreenwood	18.8 in	0.6
Franklin Township Community School CorporationIndianapolis	15.2 in	0.4	2
Center Grove Community School CorporationGreenwood	18.8 in	0.6
Indianapolis Public SchoolsIndianapolis	15.2 in	0.4
Decatur Township Metropolitan School DistrictIndianapolis	16.9 in	0

The schools

21 schools

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

High

Southport High School
Perry Meridian High School

Middle

Perry Meridian Middle School
Southport Middle School
Southport 6th Grade Academy
Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy

Elementary

Rosa Parks Elementary School
Jeremiah Gray Elementary School
Mary Bryan Elementary School
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
Clinton Young Elementary School
Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch
Winchester Village Elementary
Glenns Valley Elementary School
Homecroft Elementary School
Southport Elementary School
William Henry Burkhart Elementary
Jeremiah Gray Kindergarten
Rosa Parks Kindergarten
Douglas MacArthur Kindergarten
Homecroft Kindergarten

Questions

Perry Township Metropolitan snow day questions

When is the last day of school for Perry Township Metropolitan?

How much snow does Indianapolis get?

What was the biggest snow day near Perry Township Metropolitan?

How does the Perry Township Metropolitan snow day predictor work?

How does Indiana handle snow days?

More winter

More for Indiana snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Indiana winter forecastThe season ahead for Indiana: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.