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Niagara Falls, New York, 7,029 students in 11 schools

Niagara Falls City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Niagara Falls, measured against Niagara Falls's own big snow morning of 3.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Niagara Falls close tomorrow?

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

How Niagara Falls calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“The District’s website, Facebook page, and X account will reflect the closed status. Closings also appear on the websites, and bottom-of-the-screen crawls on WGRZ-TV, WIVB-TV, WKBW-TV, and Spectrum News.”
2026-2027 NFSD Calendar

3 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “emergency days”.

“If we must close school for four days over the course of the year, we will use our three scheduled emergency (“extra”) days, and change March 31, 2027, to a regular school day.”
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Making up a lost day

After the three emergency days, the spring recess days March 31, April 1 and April 2, 2027 become school days; the booklet gives two different orders for them.

“If still more days are needed, the following scheduled days off will become school days, in this order: April 2, 2027, April 1, 2027, March 31, 2027.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 2, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 24, 2027
District calendar

Read from Niagara Falls’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is nfschools.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Niagara Falls’s snow record

54.8inches of snow a winter
5.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.6with 4 in or more
3.4 ina big snow morning in Niagara Falls: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
6.1Nov
10.2Dec
17.9Jan
12.7Feb
6.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 76.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.2 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 New York rule

How New York counts a lost day

New York requires 180 days of session plus 900 hours a year for kindergarten to grade 6 and 990 hours for grades 7 to 12. The Commissioner can excuse up to 5 days closed for extraordinary weather, but only if the district cannot make them up by using all its scheduled vacation days before the June Regents exams.

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

Next door

Districts near Niagara Falls

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Grand Island Central School DistrictGrand Island54.8 in1.6
Niagara-Wheatfield Central School DistrictSanborn77.9 in3.1
North Tonawanda City School DistrictNorth Tonawanda75.2 in2.6
Tonawanda City School DistrictTonawanda72.6 in2.6
Lewiston-Porter Central School DistrictYoungstown54.8 in1.6
Starpoint Central School DistrictLockport77.9 in3.1
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Niagara Falls High School

Middle

  • Lasalle Preparatory School
  • Gaskill Preparatory School

Elementary

  • Harry F Abate Elementary School
  • Cataract Elementary School
  • Hyde Park School
  • Bloneva Bond Primary School
  • Geraldine J Mann School
  • Seventy Ninth Street School
  • Maple Avenue School
  • Henry J Kalfas Magnet School
Questions

Niagara Falls snow day questions

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More winter

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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.