South Bend Community School Corporation Snow Day Predictor

Q: How does South Bend announce a snow day?

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

Q: When is the last day of school for South Bend?

June 4, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does South Bend get?

About 55.3 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.8 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 5.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.6 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near South Bend?

12.6 inches on January 14, 2026, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 1.8 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 94.2 inches.

Q: Does South Bend get more snow days than other Indiana districts?

South Bend averages 1.6 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 99 percent of the 283 Indiana districts with a station record.

Q: How does the South Bend snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for South Bend 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 South Bend’s own big snow morning: 3.4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.8 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will South Bend close tomorrow?

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

The South Bend playbook

How South Bend calls a snow day

How families hear

By email, phone call, text message and the district website.

“Most district messages are delivered through SchoolMessenger, our official communication platform.”

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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 19, 2026
Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
Last day June 4, 2027

District calendar

Read from South Bend’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is sb.school.

Ten winters of school mornings

South Bend’s snow record

55.3inches of snow a winter

5.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.6with 4 in or more

3.4 ina big snow morning in South Bend: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

3.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 99% of the 283 Indiana districts with a station record.

8.4Nov

10.7Dec

18.1Jan

13.2Feb

3.9Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 12.6 in on January 14, 2026
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 94.2 in
6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
1 in mornings 10.4 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 South Bend

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Mishawaka School CityMishawaka	39.5 in	0.8
Penn-Harris-Madison School CorporationMishawaka	26.5 in	0.6
Baugo Community SchoolsElkhart	26.5 in	0.6
Elkhart Community SchoolsElkhart	26.5 in	0.6	1
Union-North United School CorporationLakeville	40.1 in	0.9
New Prairie United School CorporationNew Carlisle	46.7 in	1.3

The schools

31 schools

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

High

Adams High School
Riley High School
Washington High School
Clay High School
Rise Up Academy at Eggleston

Middle

Jefferson Traditional School
Dickinson Fine Arts Academy
LaSalle Academy
Jackson Middle School
Navarre Middle School
Edison Middle School

Elementary

Harrison Elementary School
Madison S.T.E.A.M. Academy
Clay International Academy
Kennedy Academy
McKinley Elementary School
Nuner Fine Arts Academy
Darden Elementary School
Monroe Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School
Swanson Traditional School
Marquette Montessori Academy
Wilson Elementary School
Marshall Traditional School
Muessel Elementary School
Coquillard Elementary School
Warren Elementary School

Other schools

Studebaker Center
South Bend Virtual School
Juvenile Justice Center
Lafayette Early Childhood Center

Questions

South Bend snow day questions

How does South Bend announce a snow day?

When is the last day of school for South Bend?

How much snow does South Bend get?

What was the biggest snow day near South Bend?

Does South Bend get more snow days than other Indiana districts?

How does the South Bend 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.