Blue Valley Unified School District 229 Snow Day Predictor

Blue Valley 229 announces closings the day before when possible, by its own published protocol.

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

A snow day in Blue Valley 229 is a day off: the district closes rather than going remote.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 25, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Overland Park 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 Blue Valley 229’s own big snow morning: 2.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.5 miles away.

Kansas requires 186 school days (181 for seniors), or by board policy 1,116 school hours for grades 1 to 11 (1,086 for seniors, 465 for kindergarten). Once the board's scheduled snow make-up days are used up, extra weather closures count as school days, up to the number of make-up days scheduled or five days, whichever is smaller.