Pittsburg, Kansas, 3,395 students in 6 schools

Pittsburg Unified School District 250 Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Pittsburg get?

About 6 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station under a mile away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Pittsburg?

4.5 inches on January 10, 2025, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station under a mile away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 14.1 inches.

Q: How does the Pittsburg snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg’s own big snow morning: 3.1 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station under a mile away.

Q: How far ahead does the Pittsburg snow day predictor look?

Three school mornings, as far as the National Weather Service hourly forecast reaches. Weekends and breaks are skipped, so a Friday storm is read for Monday’s buses.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Pittsburg, measured against Pittsburg's own big snow morning of 3.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Pittsburg close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Pittsburg.

Ten winters of school mornings

Pittsburg’s snow record

6inches of snow a winter

0.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.3with 4 in or more

3.1 ina big snow morning in Pittsburg: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

1.7school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

0Nov

0.3Dec

2.6Jan

2.7Feb

0.4Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 4.5 in on January 10, 2025
Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 14.1 in
6 in mornings 0 a winter
1 in mornings 1.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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.

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 Pittsburg

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Spring Hill Unified School District 230Spring Hill	13.1 in	0.4
Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231Gardner	16.4 in	0.7
Blue Valley Unified School District 229Overland Park	13.1 in	0.4
Olathe Unified School District 233Olathe	16.4 in	0.7	2
Emporia Unified School District 253Emporia	8.3 in	0.2
De Soto Unified School District 232De Soto	15.1 in	0.8	2

The schools

6 schools

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

High

Pittsburg High

Middle

Pittsburg Middle School

Elementary

Westside Elem
Meadowlark Elementary
Lakeside Elem
Geo E Nettels Elem

Questions

Pittsburg snow day questions

How much snow does Pittsburg get?

What was the biggest snow day near Pittsburg?

How does the Pittsburg snow day predictor work?

How does Kansas handle snow days?

How far ahead does the Pittsburg snow day predictor look?

More winter

More for Kansas snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Kansas winter forecastThe season ahead for Kansas: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.