Kansas City, Missouri, 14,694 students in 33 schools

Kansas City 33 School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Kansas City get?

About 13.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 12.2 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.6 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Kansas City 33?

8.5 inches on January 6, 2025, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 12.2 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 26 inches.

Q: Does Kansas City 33 get more snow days than other Missouri districts?

Kansas City 33 averages 0.6 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 83 percent of the 494 Missouri districts with a station record.

Q: How does the Kansas City 33 snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Kansas City 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 Kansas City 33’s own big snow morning: 4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 12.2 miles away.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Kansas City 33, measured against Kansas City 33's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Kansas City 33 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Kansas City.

Ten winters of school mornings

Kansas City 33’s snow record

13.9inches of snow a winter

2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.6with 4 in or more

4 ina big snow morning in Kansas City 33: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 83% of the 494 Missouri districts with a station record.

0.1Nov

2.4Dec

5.4Jan

4Feb

1.1Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 8.5 in on January 6, 2025
Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 26 in
6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
1 in mornings 3.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 12.2 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.

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 Kansas City 33

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
North Kansas City 74 School DistrictKansas City	13.9 in	0.6	1
Independence 30 School DistrictIndependence	15.3 in	0.9
Raytown C-2 School DistrictRaytown	15.3 in	0.9
Hickman Mills C-1 School DistrictKansas City	13.1 in	0.4
Grandview C-4 School DistrictGrandview	13.1 in	0.4
Park Hill School DistrictKansas City	14.9 in	0.2

The schools

33 schools

Every school in Kansas City 33 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

East High School
Lincoln College Prep.
Northeast High
Paseo Acad. of Performing Arts
Central High School
Southeast High School
Manual Career Tech. Ctr.

Middle

Lincoln College Academy Middle
Northeast Middle School
Central Middle School

Elementary

M. L. King Elementary
Foreign Language Academy
Rogers Elementary
Whittier Elementary
B. Banneker Elementary
Garfield Elementary
Carver Dual Language School
Primitivo Garcia Elementary
Gladstone Elementary
John T. Hartman Elementary
Ac Prep Elementary
Phillis Wheatley Elementary
Hale Cook Elementary
Trailwoods Elementary
Holliday Montessori
George Melcher Elementary
Wendell Phillips Elementary
Faxon Elementary
James Elementary
Pitcher Elementary
Border Star Montessori

Other schools

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Questions

Kansas City 33 snow day questions

How much snow does Kansas City get?

What was the biggest snow day near Kansas City 33?

Does Kansas City 33 get more snow days than other Missouri districts?

How does the Kansas City 33 snow day predictor work?

How does Missouri handle snow days?

More winter

More for Missouri snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Missouri winter forecastThe season ahead for Missouri: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.