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Zionsville, Indiana, 7,923 students in 9 schools

Zionsville Community Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Zionsville, measured against Zionsville's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Zionsville close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Zionsville.
The Zionsville playbook

How Zionsville calls a snow day

How families hear

By text message, phone call, email, social media, local TV and the district website.

“Families will be notified through ParentSquare via text, voicemail, email. ZCS also utilizes Twitter, Facebook, lnstagram, local television stations, and our district webpage www.zcs.k12.in.us/ to announce school delays or closures.”
School Delay and Closing Information - Zionsville Community Schools

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“On days when Zionsville Community Schools has a two-hour delay, Universal Preschool will also have a two-hour delay.”

eLearning days

Zionsville has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“When school is cancelled for any reason, our default response is to immediately deploy an e-day during which all students will have remote learning for that day”
Source

Making up a lost day

Make up days at the end of the year if needed, May 28 and June 1 to 3, used only when an e-Day is not possible.

Make up dates: May 28, Jun 1, Jun 2, Jun 3.

“5/28/27-6/3/27 - Make-up days, if needed”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 4, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 4
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day May 26, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“If e-Days are not possible for missed instructional days not waived by the state of Indiana, the superintendent or designee will indicate the required make-up days and their location(s) on the school calendar.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Zionsville’s snow record

13.9inches of snow a winter
1.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.6with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Zionsville: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 63% of the 283 Indiana districts with a station record.

1.3Nov
3Dec
5.3Jan
2.6Feb
1.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.5 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 27.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5 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.

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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 Zionsville

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Pike Township Metropolitan School DistrictIndianapolis13.9 in0.61
Washington Township Metropolitan School DistrictIndianapolis19.9 in0.32
Carmel Clay SchoolsCarmel11.9 in0.4
Westfield-Washington SchoolsWestfield11.9 in0.4
Brownsburg Community School CorporationBrownsburg18.9 in0.4
Speedway School TownSpeedway17.2 in0.2
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • Zionsville Community High School

Middle

  • Zionsville Middle School

Elementary

  • Zionsville West Middle School, Whitestown
  • Zionsville Pleasant View Elem Sch
  • Boone Meadow, Whitestown
  • Trailside Elementary School
  • Stonegate Elementary
  • Union Elementary School
  • Eagle Elementary School
Questions

Zionsville snow day questions

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