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Garden City, Kansas, 7,235 students in 18 schools

Garden City Unified School District 457 Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Garden City close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Garden City.
Ten winters of school mornings

Garden City’s snow record

16.1inches of snow a winter
1.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.6with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Garden City: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 75% of the 284 Kansas districts with a station record.

1.2Nov
1.3Dec
7.3Jan
3Feb
1.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on February 24, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 33.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.6 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 Kansas rule

How Kansas counts a lost day

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.

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

Next door

Districts near Garden City

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Dodge City Unified School District 443Dodge City15.1 in0.3
Liberal Unified School District 480Liberal10 in0.3
Hays Unified School District 489Hays11.3 in0.6
Goddard Unified School District 265Goddard8.8 in0.2
Maize Unified School District 266Maize9.6 in0.1
Salina Unified School District 305Salina13.2 in0.5
The schools

18 schools

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

High

  • Garden City High School
  • USD 457 Virtual Academy

Middle

  • Horace J. Good Middle School
  • Kenneth Henderson Middle
  • Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr
  • Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr

Elementary

  • Jennie Wilson Elem
  • Victor Ornelas Elem
  • Florence Wilson Elem
  • Alta Brown Elem
  • Abe Hubert Elementary School
  • Buffalo Jones Elem
  • Gertrude Walker Elem
  • Edith Scheuerman Elem
  • Jennie Barker Elem
  • Plymell Elementary
  • Georgia Matthews Elem

Other schools

  • GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall
Questions

Garden City snow day questions

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More winter

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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.