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Tecumseh, Kansas, 3,659 students in 6 schools

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Shawnee Heights close tomorrow?

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

Shawnee Heights’s snow record

15.5inches of snow a winter
1.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.5with 4 in or more
3.1 ina big snow morning in Shawnee Heights: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 64% of the 284 Kansas districts with a station record.

1.9Nov
1.7Dec
6.4Jan
3.4Feb
1.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14.1 in on January 5, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 29.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7 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 Shawnee Heights

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501Topeka10.2 in0.5
Seaman Unified School District 345Topeka14.2 in0.3
Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437Topeka10.2 in0.5
Lawrence Unified School District 497Lawrence15.1 in0.4
De Soto Unified School District 232De Soto15.1 in0.82
Basehor-Linwood Unified School District 458Basehor15.1 in0.8
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Shawnee Heights High

Middle

  • Shawnee Heights Middle

Elementary

  • Berryton Elem, Berryton
  • Tecumseh South Elem
  • Tecumseh North Elem
  • Shawnee Heights Elem, Topeka
Questions

Shawnee Heights 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.