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Daviess County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Daviess, measured against Daviess's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Daviess close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Owensboro.
The Daviess playbook

How Daviess calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website, social media, local TV, radio, text message and email.

“We will also communicate to families through text/email and Talking Points.”
DCPS Winter Weather Policies

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“All morning bus pick-up times and school starting times will shift by one or two full hours. The school day will end at the normal time and afternoon bus routes will run on their regular schedules.”
Delay schedule

5 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Make Up Days”.

“Possible make up day”
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NTI days

Daviess has Non Traditional Instruction days in its winter plan.

“If DCPS schools are closed for winter weather, it will be a district decision and announced as either a “traditional snow day” or DCPS@Home Day.”
Source

Making up a lost day

Snow days are made up on the listed make up days after the last student day, May 21 to May 27.

Make up dates: May 21, May 24, May 25, May 26, May 27.

“Traditional “snow days” will be made up according to the DCPS Make-Up Day schedule.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 6, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 20, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Closed for in-person learning on January 21, 2026 as DCPS@Home (NTI) Day 2, after Day 1 on December 2.
    “DCPS schools will be closed for in-person learning on Wednesday, January 21, and this will be DCPS@Home Day #2.”
    News report

Read from Daviess’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is daviesskyschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Daviess’s snow record

7.6inches of snow a winter
0.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.3with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Daviess: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 51% of the 127 Kentucky districts with a station record.

0.5Nov
1.1Dec
3.4Jan
1.8Feb
0.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 4.9 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 16.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 23.3 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 Daviess

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Ohio County School DistrictHartford3.6 in0.1
Henderson County School DistrictHenderson7.7 in0.2
Muhlenberg County School DistrictPowderly4.7 in0
Hopkins County School DistrictMadisonville4.7 in0
Grayson County School DistrictLeitchfield3.1 in0.1
Meade County School DistrictBrandenburg7.2 in0.2
The schools

24 schools

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

High

  • Daviess County High School
  • Apollo High School
  • Heritage Park High School
  • Virtual Academy
  • The Center for Academic Improvement
  • Owensboro Day Treatment
  • Valley High School

Middle

  • Daviess County Middle School
  • College View Middle School
  • F T Burns Middle School

Elementary

  • Tamarack Elementary School
  • Deer Park Elementary School
  • Meadow Lands Elementary School
  • Southern Oaks Elementary School, Utica
  • Country Heights Elementary School
  • F T Burns Elementary School
  • East View Elementary School
  • Highland Elementary School
  • Audubon Elementary School
  • Sorgho Elementary School
  • Whitesville Elementary School, Whitesville
  • West Louisville Elementary School
  • Valley Elementary School

Other schools

  • Kentucky TECH - Daviess County Campus
Questions

Daviess 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.