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Clifton Park, New York, 9,328 students in 12 schools

Shenendehowa Central School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Shenendehowa, measured against Shenendehowa's own big snow morning of 5.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Shenendehowa close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Clifton Park.
The Shenendehowa playbook

How Shenendehowa calls a snow day

When the call comes

Typically makes the decision by 5 a.m.

“Makes recommendations to the Superintendent and/or designee who typically makes the decision by 5 a.m.”
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How families hear

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

“Please see the district website, social media, SIS email notification or your local television station for information. Families can now choose to receive emergency notifications by text.”
Closings, Delays, & Early Dismissal - Shenendehowa Central School District

Delayed openings

“Delayed openings mean all schedules will be delayed by either one or two hours. Bus pickups will be approximately one or two hours later than the scheduled time.”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

If closings exceed the planned make-up days, school may meet on vacation days.

“If emergency closings exceed planned make-up days, school may be in session on vacation days (excluding legal holidays). Depending on the number of emergency days used, school may be closed on the Friday prior to Memorial Day weekend.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 8, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 24, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“When a decision is made to close school, delay school or release students from school early, the Superintendent and/or designee contacts administrators to initiate a communication tree and the Public Information Officer notifies the media”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Shenendehowa’s snow record

42.2inches of snow a winter
4.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.4with 4 in or more
5.5 ina big snow morning in Shenendehowa: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 51% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

1.3Nov
11Dec
11.2Jan
10.4Feb
7.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 18.5 in on December 17, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 72.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.4 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 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 Shenendehowa

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Mechanicville City School DistrictMechanicville42.2 in2.4
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School DistrictBurnt Hills44.6 in2.6
Lansingburgh Central School DistrictTroy51.5 in2.6
Niskayuna Central School DistrictSchenectady43.9 in2.1
Cohoes City School DistrictCohoes35.2 in2.7
Stillwater Central School DistrictStillwater56.9 in3.3
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • Shenendehowa High School

Middle

  • Gowana Middle School
  • Koda Middle School
  • Acadia Middle School

Elementary

  • Arongen Elementary School
  • Shatekon Elementary School
  • Skano Elementary School
  • Orenda Elementary School
  • Okte Elementary School
  • Chango Elementary School, Ballston Lake
  • Karigon Elementary School
  • Tesago Elementary School
Questions

Shenendehowa 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.