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Kansas City, Kansas, 21,132 students in 43 schools

Kansas City Unified School District 500 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Kansas City, measured against Kansas City's own big snow morning of 2.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Kansas City close tomorrow?

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

How Kansas City calls a snow day

How families hear

“Please remember all communication regarding inclement weather will be sent through Bright Arrow.”
Inclement Weather Information - Kansas City Kansas Unified Schl Dist 500

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Plan A — Two Hour Delayed Start. School will start two hours late. School will be dismissed at the regular time. Part-day Early Childhood students will not report to school (full-day will still attend).”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

April 2 if announced, then May 24 to 27 after the last day.

Make up dates: Apr 2, May 24, May 25, May 26, May 27.

“*24-27: Emergency Make-up Days”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 12, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 18 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 20, 2027
District calendar

Read from Kansas City’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is kckschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Kansas City’s snow record

14.9inches of snow a winter
1.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.2with 4 in or more
2.4 ina big snow morning in Kansas City: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.2Nov
1.5Dec
6.3Jan
4Feb
1.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11 in on January 5, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 29.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 11.6 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 Kansas City

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Turner Unified School District 202Kansas City16.4 in0.7
Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School DistrictShawnee Mission16.4 in0.74
Basehor-Linwood Unified School District 458Basehor15.1 in0.8
Olathe Unified School District 233Olathe16.4 in0.72
De Soto Unified School District 232De Soto15.1 in0.82
Blue Valley Unified School District 229Overland Park13.1 in0.4
The schools

43 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Wyandotte High
  • J C Harmon High
  • Washington High
  • Sumner Academy of Arts & Science
  • F L Schlagle High
  • 500 Reach

Middle

  • Carl B. Bruce Middle School
  • Gloria Willis Middle School
  • Central Middle
  • D D Eisenhower Middle
  • Argentine Middle
  • Rosedale Middle
  • Arrowhead Middle

Elementary

  • Silver City Elem
  • M E Pearson Elem
  • West Park Elementary School
  • Chelsea Elem
  • Hazel Grove Elem
  • Welborn Elem
  • Whittier Elem
  • Lowell Brune Elementary School
  • John F Kennedy Elem
  • Frances Willard Elem
  • Bertram Caruthers Elem
  • Frank Rushton Elem
  • Grant Elem
  • Stony Point North
  • Quindaro Elem
  • John Fiske Elem
  • Claude A Huyck Elem
  • Stony Point South
  • McKinley Elementary School
  • Banneker Elem
  • Eugene Ware Elem
  • Douglass Elem
  • Thomas A Edison Elem
  • New Stanley Elem
  • Mark Twain Elem
  • Noble Prentis Elem
  • Emerson Elem
Questions

Kansas City snow day questions

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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.