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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 14,714 students in 27 schools

Hardin County School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Hardin, measured against Hardin's own big snow morning of 2.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Hardin close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Elizabethtown.
The Hardin playbook

How Hardin calls a snow day

5 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “make-up days”.

“MAKE-UP DAYS WILL BE TAKEN IN THIS ORDER: APRIL 30, MAY 21, MAY 24, MAY 25, MAY 26”
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Making up a lost day

Taken in a set order: April 30 first, then May 21 and May 24 to 26.

Make up dates: Apr 30, May 21, May 24, May 25, May 26.

“MAKE-UP DAYS WILL BE TAKEN IN THIS ORDER: APRIL 30, MAY 21, MAY 24, MAY 25, MAY 26”
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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: 8 days. Eight of ten NTI days used by early February, two in December and six during the late January storm; Presidents Day became a school day.
    “used eight of ten non-traditional instruction days, two in December, and six during the storm.”
    News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Hardin’s snow record

7.9inches of snow a winter
0.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.1with 4 in or more
2.5 ina big snow morning in Hardin: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.2Nov
1.3Dec
3.8Jan
2.1Feb
0.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.1 in on January 7, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 15.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.7 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 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 Hardin

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Bullitt County School DistrictShepherdsville8.7 in0.6All made up
Meade County School DistrictBrandenburg7.2 in0.2
Nelson County School DistrictBardstown8.7 in0.6
Grayson County School DistrictLeitchfield3.1 in0.1
Jefferson County School DistrictLouisville11.7 in0.3
Spencer County School DistrictTaylorsville12.3 in0.3
The schools

27 schools

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

High

  • Central Hardin High School, Cecilia
  • North Hardin High School, Radcliff
  • John Hardin High School
  • Hardin County Day Treatment Center
  • Early College and Career Center

Middle

  • East Hardin Middle School
  • James T Alton Middle School, Vine Grove
  • Bluegrass Middle School
  • North Middle School, Radcliff
  • West Hardin Middle School, Cecilia

Elementary

  • G C Burkhead Elementary School
  • Woodland Elementary School, Radcliff
  • Heartland Elementary School
  • Lincoln Trail Elementary School
  • Rineyville Elementary School, Rineyville
  • New Highland Elementary School
  • Meadow View Elementary School, Radcliff
  • Vine Grove Elementary School, Vine Grove
  • Creekside Elementary School, Sonora
  • Lakewood Elementary School, Cecilia
  • Cecilia Valley Elementary School, Cecilia
  • Radcliff Elementary School, Radcliff

Other schools

  • North Park Elementary School, Radcliff
  • College View Campus
  • Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systems, Radcliff
  • HCS Virtual Academy
  • Spectrum Care Academy
Questions

Hardin 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.