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Syracuse, New York, 18,072 students in 31 schools

Syracuse City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Syracuse, measured against Syracuse's own big snow morning of 4.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Syracuse close tomorrow?

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

How Syracuse calls a snow day

How families hear

By local TV, radio, phone call and the district website.

“School closing updates will also appear on our website at www. syracusecityschools.com.”
SCSD 2026-27 Calendar Handbook, Emergency School Closings

1 built in snow day

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “inclement weather/contingency day”.

“The calendar allows for the use, without loss of State Aid, of one (1) school closing day.”
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Remote learning days

Syracuse has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“After the first snow or wind chill day, the District will move to remote school and remote/in-person work.”
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Making up a lost day

The one contingency day, May 28, is a school day if used and a recess day if not.

“If zero (0) inclement weather days are used, then May 28 becomes a recess day.”
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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 25, 2027
District calendar

Read from Syracuse’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is syracusecityschools.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Syracuse’s snow record

102.5inches of snow a winter
11.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.6with 4 in or more
4.4 ina big snow morning in Syracuse: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 88% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

9.3Nov
23.5Dec
25.4Jan
26.2Feb
16Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 24.2 in on December 30, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 153.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 19.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.9 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 Syracuse

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Westhill Central School DistrictSyracuse101.8 in5.2
Jamesville-DeWitt Central School DistrictDewitt102.5 in4.6
North Syracuse Central School DistrictNorth Syracuse102.5 in4.6
East Syracuse-Minoa Central School DistrictEast Syracuse102.5 in4.6
Solvay Union Free School DistrictSolvay101.8 in5.2
West Genesee Central School DistrictCamillus101.8 in5.2
The schools

31 schools

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

High

  • Henninger High School
  • Nottingham High School
  • Corcoran High School
  • Public Service Leadership Academy at Fowler
  • Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central
  • Onondaga Cnty Sheriff's Dept

Middle

  • Grant Middle School
  • Lincoln Middle School
  • Syracuse Stem at Blodgett
  • Brighton Academy
  • Clary Middle School
  • Expeditionary Learning Middle School

Elementary

  • Huntington K-8 School
  • Frazer K-8 School
  • Hurlbut W Smith K-8 School
  • Dr Weeks Elementary School
  • Edward Smith K-8 School
  • Franklin Elementary School
  • Syracuse Latin School
  • Webster Elementary School
  • Roberts K-8 School
  • Salem Hyde Elementary School
  • Steam at Dr King Elementary School
  • McKinley-Brighton Elementary School
  • Seymour Dual Language Academy
  • Bellevue Elementary School
  • Delaware Primary School
  • Meachem Elementary School
  • Van Duyn Elementary School
  • Lemoyne Elementary School
  • Porter Elementary School
Questions

Syracuse 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.