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Akron, Ohio, 19,982 students in 48 schools

Akron City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Akron, measured against Akron's own big snow morning of 3.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Akron close tomorrow?

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

How Akron calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“All students/families/staff will receive an All-Call Notification from the district’s emergency system.”
School Closings - Akron Public Schools

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 3, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Akron’s snow record

42.1inches of snow a winter
4.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.6with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Akron: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 87% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

2.8Nov
8.7Dec
15.5Jan
7.1Feb
5.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13.7 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 63.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.7 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 Ohio rule

How Ohio counts a lost day

Ohio requires hours, not days: 910 hours for full day kindergarten through grade 6, 1,001 hours for grades 7 to 12, 455 for half day kindergarten. Only hours that drop a school below the state minimum must be made up, by extending the school year.

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

Next door

Districts near Akron

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Cuyahoga Falls City School DistrictCuyahoga Falls34 in0.8
Tallmadge City School DistrictTallmadge42.1 in1.6
Coventry Local School DistrictCoventry Township38 in1
Springfield Local School DistrictAkron38 in1
Barberton City School DistrictBarberton34 in0.8
Copley-Fairlawn City School DistrictCopley34 in0.8
The schools

48 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Firestone Community Learning Center
  • East Community Learning Center
  • Garfield Community Learning Center
  • North High School
  • Buchtel Community Learning Center
  • Ellet Community Learning Center
  • Akron Early College High School
  • Akron STEM High School

Middle

  • Jennings Community Learning Center
  • Hyre Community Learning Center
  • Innes Community Learning Center
  • I Promise School
  • Litchfield Community Learning Center
  • Miller-South Visual Performing Arts
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for STEM

Elementary

  • Harris/Jackson Community Learning Center
  • Findley Community Learning Center
  • Hatton Community Learning Center
  • Forest Hill Community Learning Center
  • Seiberling Community Learning Center
  • Crouse Community Learning Center
  • King Community Learning Center
  • Judith A Resnik Community Learning Center
  • Leggett Community Learning Center
  • Sam Salem Community Learning Center
  • Schumacher Community Learning Center
  • Case Community Learning Center
  • Betty Jane Community Learning Center
  • Firestone Park Elementary School
  • Ritzman Community Learning Center
  • Mason Community Learning Center
  • Barber Community Learning Center
  • Henry L Robinson Community Learning Center
  • McEbright Community Learning Center
  • Voris Community Learning Center
  • Windemere Community Learning Center
  • Helen Arnold Community Learning Center
  • Portage Path Community Learning Center
  • David Hill Community Learning Center

Other schools

  • APS Online
Questions

Akron snow day questions

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More winter

More for Ohio snow days

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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.