Yonkers City School District Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Yonkers, measured against Yonkers's own big snow morning of 6.5 inches.
Will Yonkers close tomorrow?
How Yonkers calls a snow day
How families hear
By the district website, phone call, social media, local TV and radio.
“A notice is prominently placed in a red background across the top of the homepage, and on each school's website. Phone calls are made to families via the Blackboard school-to-home messaging system.”Emergency Closing/Delayed Opening
2 built in snow days
On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “emergency closing days”.
“The first two emergency closing days are built into the calendar – 180 days required for students”Source
Making up a lost day
Taken from spring recess, March 22 to 25, one day for each closing past the second.
Make up dates: Mar 22, Mar 23, Mar 24, Mar 25.
“3 Emergency Closing Days Used – Schools will be open March 22”Source
The 2026 to 2027 calendar
- First day September 3, 2026
- Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
- February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
- Last day June 25, 2027
Read from Yonkers’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is yonkerspublicschools.org.
Yonkers’s snow record
- Biggest day 15.3 in on February 23, 2026
- Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 45.6 in
- 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
- 1 in mornings 3.2 a winter
Measured at a NOAA weather station 10.9 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.
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
Districts near Yonkers
| District | Snow a winter | 4 in mornings |
|---|---|---|
| Bronxville Union Free School DistrictBronxville | 23 in | 0.9 |
| Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free School DistrictHastings on Hudson | 27.6 in | 1.6 |
| Mount Vernon School DistrictMount Vernon | 23 in | 0.9 |
| Tuckahoe Union Free School DistrictEastchester | 23 in | 0.9 |
| Eastchester Union Free School DistrictEastchester | 27.6 in | 1.6 |
| Pelham Union Free School DistrictPelham | 23 in | 0.9 |
40 schools
Every school in Yonkers follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.
High
- Lincoln High School
- Yonkers High School
- Gorton High School
- Saunders Trades & Technical High School
- Roosevelt High School - Early College Studies
- Riverside High School
- Barack Obama School for Social Justice
Middle
- Yonkers Middle School
- Cross Hill Academy
Elementary
- Enrico Fermi School for the Performing Arts
- Pearls Hawthorne School
- Robert C Dodson School
- School 29
- Family School 32
- Las Hermanas Mirabal Community School
- Paideia School 15
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos Microsociety School
- School 5
- Casimir Pulaski School, Scarsdale
- Cesar E Chavez School
- School 30
- School 16
- Patricia A Dichiaro School
- Rosemarie Ann Siragusa School
- Kahlil Gibran School
- School 23
- Ella Fitzgerald Academy
- Mlk Jr High Tech & Computer Magnet School
- School 22
- William Boyce Thompson School
- Montessori School 31
- Montessori School 27
- School 17
- School 21
- Paideia School 24
- School 9
- Thomas Cornell Academy
- Museum School 25
Other schools
- Yonkers Montessori Academy
- Yonkers Early Childhood Academy
Yonkers snow day questions
More for New York snow days
The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.