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Cleveland Municipal School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Cleveland Municipal, measured against Cleveland Municipal's own big snow morning of 3.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Cleveland Municipal close tomorrow?

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

How Cleveland Municipal calls a snow day

When the call comes

The night before whenever possible, otherwise no later than 5:00 a.m.

“If weather conditions are such that a determination the night before is impossible, the CEO and the Operations team will decide no later than 5:00 a.m.”
Source

How families hear

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

“All families and staff will be alerted through an automated call (IVR), email, and text message from the District’s phone system.”
Weather FAQs

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Each school has plans in place for both one-hour and two-hour delays. The information on the delays will be shared with all parents via phone, text, media, and online.”
Delay schedule

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 3, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“There is no set temperature at which the District automatically closes schools, but the ambient temperature is one of the many factors (along with wind chill, road conditions, and weather forecasts) considered when making a school-closure decision.”
Board policy

Read from Cleveland Municipal’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is clevelandmetroschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Cleveland Municipal’s snow record

47.4inches of snow a winter
4.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Cleveland Municipal: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 96% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

3.3Nov
9.4Dec
16.6Jan
10Feb
5.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.8 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 65.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.2 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 Cleveland Municipal

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Lakewood City School DistrictLakewood47.4 in2
Brooklyn City School DistrictBrooklyn47.4 in2
East Cleveland City School DistrictEast Cleveland51.7 in1.9
Shaker Heights City School DistrictShaker Heights54.2 in1.6
Garfield Heights City School DistrictGarfield Heights54.2 in1.6
Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School DistrictUniversity Heights51.7 in1.9
The schools

93 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • John F Kennedy High School
  • Max S Hayes High School
  • Rhodes College and Career Academy
  • John Marshall School of Information Technology
  • John Marshall School of Business and Civic Leadership
  • John Adams College & Career Academy
  • Garrett Morgan School of Leadership and Innovation
  • East Technical High School
  • Garrett Morgan School of Engineering & Innovation
  • John Marshall School of Engineering
  • Cleveland School of Science & Medicine
  • Cleveland School Of The Arts High School

Elementary

  • Campus International School
  • Joseph M Gallagher School
  • Clark School
  • Almira
  • Orchard School
  • Wilbur Wright School
  • Riverside School
  • Artemus Ward
  • Luis Munoz Marin School
  • Scranton School
  • Halle
  • Andrew J Rickoff
  • Sunbeam
  • William Rainey Harper
  • Buhrer
  • Nathan Hale School
  • Stonebrook-White Montessori
  • Miles Park School
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Clara E Westropp School
  • Paul L Dunbar Elementary School

Other schools

  • Natividad Pagan International Newcomers Academy
  • Cleveland Metro Remote School K-12
  • Garfield Elementary School
  • Harvey Rice Elementary School
  • Robinson G Jones Elementary School
  • Wade Park
  • Glenville High School
Questions

Cleveland Municipal snow day questions

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