Maize Unified School District 266 Snow Day Predictor

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

May 20, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 9.6 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.3 miles away, averaged over 8 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.6 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.1 with 4 inches or more.

8.1 inches on November 26, 2023, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 3.3 miles away in 8 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 16.8 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Maize 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 Maize’s own big snow morning: 2.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.3 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.