Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School District Snow Day Predictor

Shawnee Mission announces closings the evening before when possible, in time for the 10 p.m. newscasts, by its own published protocol.

By the district website, radio, local TV, text message, phone call and email, and on the district’s own closings page.

4 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “snow days”.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 26, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Shawnee Mission 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 Shawnee Mission’s own big snow morning: 3.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 7.9 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.