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St Joseph, Missouri, 10,477 students in 25 schools

St. Joseph School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in St. Joseph, measured against St. Joseph's own big snow morning of 4.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will St. Joseph close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in St Joseph.
Ten winters of school mornings

St. Joseph’s snow record

15.3inches of snow a winter
1.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
4.2 ina big snow morning in St. Joseph: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.9Nov
0.6Dec
6.7Jan
4.2Feb
1.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14 in on January 6, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 29.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.8 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 St. Joseph

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Platte County R-III School DistrictPlatte City14.9 in0.2
Kearney R-I School DistrictKearney8.2 in0.2
Park Hill School DistrictKansas City14.9 in0.2
Liberty 53 School DistrictLiberty13.9 in0.6
North Kansas City 74 School DistrictKansas City13.9 in0.61
Kansas City 33 School DistrictKansas City13.9 in0.6
The schools

25 schools

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

High

  • Central High
  • Benton High
  • Lafayette High
  • Hillyard Technical Ctr.

Middle

  • Truman Middle
  • Bode Middle
  • Spring Garden Middle
  • Robidoux Middle

Elementary

  • Carden Park Elem, St. Joseph
  • Lindbergh Elem.
  • Oak Grove Elem, St. Joseph
  • Parkway Elem.
  • Skaith Elem.
  • Hosea Elem.
  • Coleman Elem.
  • Edison Elem.
  • Ellison Elem.
  • Hyde Elem.
  • Pershing Elem.
  • Pickett Elem.
  • Field Elem.

Other schools

  • Mark Twain Early Learning Cntr, St. Joseph
  • Lake Early Learning Center, St. Joseph
  • Alt. Resource Ctr.
  • Buchanan Co. Academy
Questions

St. Joseph 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.