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Duncan Falls, Ohio, 1,799 students in 6 schools

Franklin Local School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Franklin Local School District, measured against Franklin Local School District's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Franklin Local School District close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Duncan Falls.
Ten winters of school mornings

Franklin Local School District’s snow record

17.8inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Franklin Local School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 72% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

0.2Nov
3.8Dec
7.6Jan
4.3Feb
1.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 34.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 19.1 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 Franklin Local School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Maysville Local School DistrictZanesville17.8 in1
West Muskingum Local School DistrictZanesville17.8 in1
East Muskingum Local School DistrictNew Concord13.2 in0.4
Crooksville Exempted Village School DistrictCrooksville17.8 in1
Morgan Local School DistrictMc Connelsville11.8 in0.3
Tri-Valley Local School DistrictDresden13.2 in0.4
The schools

6 schools

Every school in Franklin Local School District follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Philo High School
  • Franklin Local Community School, Roseville

Middle

  • Philo Junior High School, Philo

Elementary

  • Duncan Falls Elementary School
  • Roseville Elementary School, Roseville

Other schools

  • Franklin Local Preschool - Roseville, Roseville
Questions

Franklin Local School District snow day questions

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More winter

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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.