Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501 Snow Day Predictor

Topeka announces closings as early as possible, before bus routes begin, by its own published protocol.

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

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

About 10.2 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.2 miles away, averaged over 8 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.5 with 4 inches or more.

9 inches on January 6, 2025, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 3.2 miles away in 8 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 21 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Topeka 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 Topeka’s own big snow morning: 4.4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.2 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.