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Boone County School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Boone close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Florence.
The Boone playbook

How Boone calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:00 a.m.

“The team attempts to make a decision by 5:00 a.m. There are times when a decision is not clear-cut, for instance in cases of a snow storm happening right at the time of assessment.”
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How families hear

By phone call, social media and the district website.

“Since the phone system has thousands of households to call, it can take 45 minutes to an hour for all the messages to go out.”
Inclement Weather Policy | Boone County Schools

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“All schools start either one or two hours later than normal. Buses may run their regular routes or an altered route depending on weather and road conditions at the time; just add one or two hours to the regularly scheduled pick up times depending on the length of the delay.”
Delay schedule

A snow day is a day off

Boone closes rather than going remote.

“The teacher’s union contract prevents us from offering NTI days. Our current union contract expires June 30, 2028.”
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Making up a lost day

Missed days are made up before the school year ends, unless the board amends the calendar.

“Although students may get excited for an unanticipated day off from school, they will have to make up missed days before school ends for the year.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 19, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026: 8 days. 8 instructional days cancelled as of February 23, 2026.
    “As of February 23, 2026, 8 instructional days have been cancelled this school year.”
    District notice

Read from Boone’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is boone.kyschools.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Boone’s snow record

19.6inches of snow a winter
2.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
3.1 ina big snow morning in Boone: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 70% of the 127 Kentucky districts with a station record.

1.3Nov
3.1Dec
7.4Jan
5.5Feb
1.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.2 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 32.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.6 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 Kentucky rule

How Kentucky counts a lost day

Kentucky requires at least 1,062 instructional hours on at least 170 student attendance days. After an emergency a board may amend its calendar and lengthen or shorten the remaining days by 30 minutes or more, as long as the year still meets the requirement.

The Kentucky rules in the agency’s own words, and every Kentucky district

Next door

Districts near Boone

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Kenton County School DistrictFort Wright19.6 in0.45
Covington Independent School DistrictCovington19.6 in0.4
Fort Thomas Independent School DistrictFort Thomas19.6 in0.4
Campbell County School DistrictAlexandria19.6 in0.4
Grant County School DistrictWilliamstown9.8 in0.1
Scott County School DistrictGeorgetown13.2 in0.16
The schools

28 schools

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

High

  • Larry A. Ryle High School, Union
  • Randall K. Cooper High School, Union
  • Conner High School, Hebron
  • Boone County High School
  • ACCEL Academy, Burlington
  • RISE Academy
  • Ignite Institute, Erlanger

Middle

  • Gray Middle School, Union
  • Conner Middle School, Hebron
  • Camp Ernst Middle School, Burlington
  • Rector A. Jones Middle School
  • Ockerman Middle School
  • Ballyshannon Middle School, Union

Elementary

  • Longbranch Elementary School, Union
  • Erpenbeck Elementary School
  • Shirley Mann Elementary School, Union
  • Ockerman Elementary School
  • New Haven Elementary School, Union
  • Chester Goodridge Elementary School, Hebron
  • Thornwilde Elementary School, Hebron
  • Burlington Elementary School, Burlington
  • Stephens Elementary School, Burlington
  • Steeplechase Elementary School, Walton
  • Florence Elementary School
  • A M Yealey Elementary School
  • Hillard Collins Elementary School
  • North Pointe Elementary School, Hebron
  • Charles H. Kelly Elementary School, Burlington
Questions

Boone snow day questions

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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.