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Gretna, Nebraska, 6,788 students in 11 schools

Gretna Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Gretna, measured against Gretna's own big snow morning of 4.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Gretna close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Gretna.
The Gretna playbook

How Gretna calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 12, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 26, 2027
District calendar

Read from Gretna’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is gpsne.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Gretna’s snow record

26.2inches of snow a winter
2.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.2with 4 in or more
4.3 ina big snow morning in Gretna: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
7.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 66% of the 235 Nebraska districts with a station record.

1.2Nov
3.8Dec
7.5Jan
9.2Feb
3.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.5 in on January 26, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 61 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Nebraska rule

How Nebraska counts a lost day

Nebraska requires at least 1,032 instructional hours for elementary grades and 1,080 for high school. At the State Board's discretion, a district that closed for severe storms or epidemic sickness keeps its accreditation and state aid, after the board secretary files a sworn statement if fewer hours will be offered.

The Nebraska rules in the agency’s own words, and every Nebraska district

Next door

Districts near Gretna

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Millard Public SchoolsOmaha22.8 in1
Elkhorn Public SchoolsElkhorn19.6 in1
Papillion-La Vista Community SchoolsPapillion22.8 in16
Ralston Public SchoolsRalston22.8 in1
Westside Community SchoolsOmaha22.8 in1
Bennington Public SchoolsBennington19.6 in1
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Gretna High School

Middle

  • Aspen Creek Middle School, Omaha
  • Gretna Middle School

Elementary

  • Whitetail Creek Elementary, Omaha
  • Aspen Creek Elementary School, Omaha
  • Falling Waters Elementary School, Omaha
  • Palisades Elementary School, Omaha
  • Harvest Hills Elementary School
  • Gretna Elementary School
  • Squire John Thomas Elementary

Other schools

  • Gretna East High School, Omaha
Questions

Gretna 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.