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Columbus, Ohio, 45,181 students in 116 schools

Columbus City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Columbus, measured against Columbus's own big snow morning of 2.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Columbus close tomorrow?

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

How Columbus calls a snow day

When the call comes

The night before whenever possible, otherwise no later than 5:30 a.m.

“If weather conditions are such that a determination the night before is not possible, the Superintendent and her Operations team will make a decision no later than 5:30 a.m.”
Source

How families hear

By phone call, email, text message, social media and the district website.

“Answer Your Phone: All families and staff will be alerted through an automated call, email, and text message from the District’s phone system.”
Weather Related School Closings - Columbus City Schools

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 20, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

Read from Columbus’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is ccsoh.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Columbus’s snow record

19.6inches of snow a winter
1.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.6with 4 in or more
2.4 ina big snow morning in Columbus: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.6Nov
4.3Dec
7Jan
5.7Feb
1.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.4 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 31.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.8 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 Columbus

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Grandview Heights City School DistrictColumbus19.6 in0.6
Bexley City School DistrictBexley19.5 in0.5
Upper Arlington City School DistrictUpper Arlington19.6 in0.6
Whitehall City School DistrictWhitehall19.5 in0.5
South-Western City School DistrictGrove City19.6 in0.66
Hamilton Local School DistrictColumbus19.5 in0.5
The schools

116 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Whetstone High School
  • Briggs High School
  • Northland High School
  • South High School
  • Columbus Alternative High School
  • West High School
  • Linden-McKinley STEM Academy
  • Centennial High School
  • Fort Hayes Arts and Academic HS
  • Mifflin High School
  • Walnut Ridge High School
  • Independence High School
  • Beechcroft High School
  • Eastmoor Academy
  • Columbus International High School
  • Marion-Franklin High School
  • East High School

Middle

  • Woodward Park Middle School
  • Dominion Middle School
  • Arts Impact Middle School (Aims)
  • Ridgeview Middle School
  • Wedgewood Middle School
  • World Language Middle School
  • Sherwood Middle School
  • Hilltonia Middle School

Elementary

  • Indianola Informal K-8 School
  • Berwick Alternative K-8 School
  • Liberty Elementary School
  • Olde Orchard Alt Elementary School
  • Starling PK-8
  • Georgian Heights Alt Elementary School
  • Columbus Spanish Immersion K-7 School
  • Scottwood Elementary School
  • Clinton Elementary School
  • Gables Elementary School
  • Ecole Kenwood French Immersion
  • Easthaven Elementary School
  • Devonshire Alternative Elementary School
  • Huy/A.G. Bell Elementary School

Other schools

  • Columbus Online Academy
Questions

Columbus snow day questions

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More winter

More for Ohio snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Ohio winter forecastThe season ahead for Ohio: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.