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Columbia, Missouri, 18,769 students in 36 schools

Columbia 93 School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Columbia 93, measured against Columbia 93's own big snow morning of 4.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Columbia 93 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Columbia.
The Columbia 93 playbook

How Columbia 93 calls a snow day

When the call comes

Radio and TV stations are notified by 6 a.m., earlier when the call can be made sooner.

“Should cancellation or a 2-hour delayed start be necessary, efforts will be made to notify radio and television stations by 6 a.m. If a decision can be made earlier than 6 a.m., the district will make every effort to do so.”
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How families hear

By text message, phone call, email, the district website, local TV and radio.

“Parents and guardians are automatically signed up to receive text, phone, and email messages from your child's school and the district via the district's parent messaging system.”
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A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“School will be canceled, or a 2-hour delayed start will be implemented after roads are tested.”
Delay schedule

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 4
  • February break Feb 12 to Feb 15
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

Read from Columbia 93’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is cpsk12.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Columbia 93’s snow record

14.9inches of snow a winter
2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.9with 4 in or more
4.3 ina big snow morning in Columbia 93: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 98% of the 494 Missouri districts with a station record.

0.7Nov
2.4Dec
5.5Jan
4.9Feb
1.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 6.5 in on March 11, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2019 to 2020, 30.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Missouri rule

How Missouri counts a lost day

Missouri requires at least 1,044 hours of actual pupil attendance, plus 36 make-up hours built into the calendar for bad weather. A district must make up the first 36 weather hours and half of any hours beyond that, but never more than 60 make-up hours in total; anything past that is excused.

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

Next door

Districts near Columbia 93

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Jefferson City Public SchoolsJefferson City7.3 in0
Sedalia 200 School DistrictSedalia12.1 in0.6
Camdenton R-III School DistrictCamdenton4 in0.3
Troy R-III School DistrictTroy6.6 in0.4
Hannibal 60 School DistrictHannibal8.5 in0.2
Warrensburg R-VI School DistrictWarrensburg11.9 in0.5
The schools

36 schools

Every school in Columbia 93 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Rock Bridge Sr. High
  • David H. Hickman High
  • Muriel Battle High School
  • Frederick Douglass High
  • Columbia Area Career Ctr.

Middle

  • Ann Hawkins Gentry Mid. School
  • Jefferson Middle School
  • John Warner Middle School
  • Oakland Middle School
  • John B. Lange Middle
  • Smithton Middle
  • West Middle School

Elementary

  • Beulah Ralph Elementary
  • Mary Paxton Keeley Elem.
  • Mill Creek Elem.
  • Rock Bridge Elem.
  • Shepard Blvd. Elem.
  • Blue Ridge Elem.
  • Cedar Ridge Elem.
  • Russell Blvd. Elem.
  • Alpha Hart Lewis
  • Fairview Elem.
  • Parkade Elem.
  • Derby Ridge Elem.
  • Eliot Battle Elementary
  • Ulysses S. Grant Elem.
  • West Blvd. Elem.
  • Locust St Expressive Arts Elem
  • New Haven Elem.
  • Midway Heights Elem.
  • John Ridgeway Elem.
  • Thomas Benton Elem.
  • Two Mile Prairie Elem.
  • Eugene Field Center

Other schools

  • Center for Early Lrning-North
  • Juvenile Justice Ctr.
Questions

Columbia 93 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.