Kansas City, Missouri, 11,915 students in 20 schools

Park Hill School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Kansas City get?

About 14.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.7 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.2 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.2 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Park Hill?

11 inches on January 5, 2025, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 4.7 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 29.1 inches.

Q: How does the Park Hill 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 Park Hill’s own big snow morning: 2.4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.7 miles away.

Q: Can Missouri schools hold a remote day instead?

With a DESE approved AMI plan, hours taught at home on a closure day count as school in session, up to 36 hours a year; lost time after that must be made up.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Park Hill, measured against Park Hill's own big snow morning of 2.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Park Hill close tomorrow?

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Park Hill’s snow record

14.9inches of snow a winter

1.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.2with 4 in or more

2.4 ina big snow morning in Park Hill: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

1.2Nov

1.5Dec

6.3Jan

4Feb

1.1Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 11 in on January 5, 2025
Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 29.1 in
6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
1 in mornings 2.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.7 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.

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 Park Hill

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
North Kansas City 74 School DistrictKansas City	13.9 in	0.6	1
Platte County R-III School DistrictPlatte City	14.9 in	0.2
Liberty 53 School DistrictLiberty	13.9 in	0.6
Kansas City 33 School DistrictKansas City	13.9 in	0.6
Independence 30 School DistrictIndependence	15.3 in	0.9
Kearney R-I School DistrictKearney	8.2 in	0.2

The schools

20 schools

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

High

Park Hill High
Park Hill South High, Riverside
Lead Innovation Studio

Middle

Walden Middle
Plaza Middle
Lakeview Middle
Congress Middle

Elementary

Union Chapel Elem.
Southeast Elem.
Hopewell Elementary
Tiffany Ridge Elementary Schl
Thomas B. Chinn Elem.
Alfred L. Renner Elem.
Prairie Point Elem.
English Landing Elem.
Graden Elem., Parkville
Hawthorn Elem.
Line Creek Elem.

Other schools

Gerner Family Early Ed Ctr.
Russell Jones Ed Center

Questions

Park Hill snow day questions

How much snow does Kansas City get?

What was the biggest snow day near Park Hill?

How does the Park Hill snow day predictor work?

How does Missouri handle snow days?

Can Missouri schools hold a remote day instead?

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.