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Dayton, Ohio, 12,441 students in 28 schools

Dayton City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Dayton, measured against Dayton's own big snow morning of 2.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Dayton close tomorrow?

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

How Dayton calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call, text message, email and local TV.

“An automated phone call, text message and email to parents or guardians (through ParentSquare)”
Weather Procedures - Dayton Public Schools

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 11, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 20, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“Generally speaking, if the air temperature reaches 0 degrees, school may be canceled due to safety reasons. Wind chill would also factor into this decision.”
Board policy

Read from Dayton’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is dps.k12.oh.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Dayton’s snow record

22.1inches of snow a winter
1.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.5with 4 in or more
2.3 ina big snow morning in Dayton: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.6Nov
3.8Dec
8.2Jan
6Feb
1.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.4 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 38.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 10.4 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 Dayton

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Oakwood City School DistrictDayton19.9 in0.8
Mad River Local School DistrictDayton22.1 in0.5
Northridge Local School DistrictDayton22.1 in0.5
Kettering City School DistrictKettering19.9 in0.8
West Carrollton City School DistrictWest Carrollton19.9 in0.8
Huber Heights City School DistrictHuber Heights22.1 in0.5
The schools

28 schools

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

High

  • Belmont High School
  • Stivers School For The Arts
  • David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center
  • Dunbar Early College High School
  • Thurgood Marshall High School
  • Meadowdale High School
  • Mound Street Academy
  • Dayton Digital Academy

Middle

  • Wogaman Middle School
  • Wright Brothers Middle School
  • Edwin Joel Brown Middle School

Elementary

  • Kiser Elementary School
  • Ruskin Elementary School
  • Valerie Elementary School
  • River's Edge Montessori Elementary School
  • Fairview Elementary School
  • Belle Haven Elementary School
  • Roosevelt Elementary School
  • Horace Mann Elementary School
  • Eastmont Elementary School
  • Westwood Elementary School
  • Edison Elementary School
  • Cleveland Elementary School
  • Louise Troy Elementary School
  • Kemp Elementary School
  • Charity Adams Earley Girls Academy

Other schools

  • The International School
  • Rosa Parks Early Learning Center
Questions

Dayton 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.