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Lee's Summit, Missouri, 17,797 students in 29 schools

Lee's Summit R-VII School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Lee's Summit R-VII close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Lee's Summit.
The Lee's Summit R-VII playbook

How Lee's Summit R-VII calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call, local TV, radio and social media.

“Announcements will be made: Through School Messenger On major Kansas City radio and television stations between 6:30 and 8:00 a.m. On district social media channels”
Inclement Weather - Lee's Summit R-7 School District

Remote learning days

Lee's Summit R-VII has remote learning days in its winter plan, up to 6 a year.

“** Alternative Method of Instruction (AMI) days (virtual learning) will be used for the first 6 inclement weather days per DESE guidelines revised during the 2024-25 school year.”
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Making up a lost day

After six AMI days, further weather days are added to the end of the year.

“Additional inclement weather days will be added to the end of the year as needed.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 4
  • Last day May 26, 2027
District calendar

Read from Lee's Summit R-VII’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is lsr7.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Lee's Summit R-VII’s snow record

10.9inches of snow a winter
1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.6with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Lee's Summit R-VII: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

0.6Nov
1.7Dec
5.5Jan
1.8Feb
0.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7.4 in on January 6, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 16.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.1 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 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 Lee's Summit R-VII

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Raytown C-2 School DistrictRaytown15.3 in0.9
Blue Springs R-IV School DistrictBlue Springs15.3 in0.9
Hickman Mills C-1 School DistrictKansas City13.1 in0.4
Grandview C-4 School DistrictGrandview13.1 in0.4
Grain Valley R-V School DistrictGrain Valley10.9 in0.6
Independence 30 School DistrictIndependence15.3 in0.9
The schools

29 schools

Every school in Lee's Summit R-VII follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Lee's Summit North High
  • Lee's Summit West High
  • Lee's Summit Sr. High
  • Hilltop School

Middle

  • Bernard C. Campbell Middle
  • East Trails Middle School
  • Summit Lakes Middle
  • Pleasant Lea Middle

Elementary

  • Prairie View Elem.
  • Summit Pointe Elem., Kansas City
  • Underwood Elem.
  • Mason Elem.
  • Cedar Creek Elem.
  • Meadow Lane Elem.
  • Highland Park Elem.
  • Richardson Elem.
  • Trailridge Elem.
  • Woodland Elem.
  • Longview Farm Elem.
  • Hawthorn Hill Elem.
  • Hazel Grove Elem.
  • Pleasant Lea Elem.
  • Greenwood Elem., Greenwood
  • Sunset Valley Elem., Lees Summit
  • Westview Elem.
  • Lee's Summit Elem.

Other schools

  • Great Beginnings Early Ed Ctr.
  • R-7 Online Academy, Lee?s Summit
  • Miller Park Center
Questions

Lee's Summit R-VII 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.