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Springfield R-XII School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Springfield R-XII, measured against Springfield R-XII's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Springfield R-XII close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Springfield.
The Springfield R-XII playbook

How Springfield R-XII calls a snow day

When the call comes

The district tries to decide by 5 a.m.; phone messages begin at 6 a.m.

“Every effort is made to make a decision by 5 a.m. whether to cancel school so that parents can be alerted as soon as possible.”
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How families hear

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

“The decision to cancel is announced immediately once it is made via SPS Twitter and Facebook accounts, website, phone calls, text, emails and local news media.”
School Cancellations

Remote learning days

Springfield R-XII has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“The first two inclement weather days will be treated as a typical cancellation and students will not participate in any learning activities. SPS will implement AMI days for students on the third day school is canceled .”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 4
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

Read from Springfield R-XII’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is sps.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Springfield R-XII’s snow record

9.3inches of snow a winter
1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.2with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Springfield R-XII: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.3Nov
0.8Dec
4.4Jan
3.3Feb
0.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 6.8 in on February 3, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 17 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.7 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 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 Springfield R-XII

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Willard R-II School DistrictWillard9.3 in0.2
Nixa School DistrictNixa8.4 in0.3
Republic R-III School DistrictRepublic8.4 in0.3
Ozark R-VI School DistrictOzark9.3 in0.2
Marshfield R-I School DistrictMarshfield8.6 in0.5
Branson R-IV School DistrictBranson7.7 in0.4
The schools

57 schools, the 40 largest here

Every school in Springfield R-XII follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Kickapoo High
  • Central High
  • Glendale High
  • Parkview High
  • Hillcrest High

Middle

  • Cherokee Middle
  • Pershing Middle
  • Carver Middle
  • Reed Middle
  • Jarrett Middle
  • Hickory Hills Middle
  • Wilson's Creek 5-6 Inter. Ctr., Battlefield
  • Westport Middle School
  • Pleasant View Middle
  • Pipkin Middle

Elementary

  • Walt Disney Elem.
  • Gray Elem.
  • Sherwood Elem.
  • Jeffries Elem.
  • Westport Elem.
  • Bingham Elem.
  • Fremont Elem.
  • Field Elem.
  • McBride Elem.
  • Horace Mann Elem.
  • Williams Elem.
  • Hickory Hills Elem.
  • Wilder Elem.
  • Delaware Elem.
  • David Harrison Elementary
  • Sunshine Elem.
  • Mark Twain Elem.
  • Sequiota Elem.
  • Truman Elem.
  • Weller Elem.
  • McGregor Elem.
  • Cowden Elem.
  • Watkins Elem.
  • Bowerman Elem.

Other schools

  • MOCAP Attendance Center
Questions

Springfield R-XII 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.