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Garfield Heights, Ohio, 2,920 students in 5 schools

Garfield Heights City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Garfield Heights, measured against Garfield Heights's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Garfield Heights close tomorrow?

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

Garfield Heights’s snow record

54.2inches of snow a winter
5.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.6with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Garfield Heights: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

4.4Nov
10.2Dec
17.3Jan
10.5Feb
7.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.3 in on December 1, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 73.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.6 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 Garfield Heights

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Maple Heights City School DistrictMaple Heights54.2 in1.6
Independence Local School DistrictIndependence54.2 in1.6
Bedford City School DistrictBedford54.2 in1.6
Shaker Heights City School DistrictShaker Heights54.2 in1.6
Brecksville-Broadview Heights City School DistrictBrecksville54.2 in1.6
Warrensville Heights City School DistrictWarrensville Heights54.2 in1.6
The schools

5 schools

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

High

  • Garfield Heights High School

Middle

  • Garfield Heights Middle School

Elementary

  • William Foster Elementary School
  • Maple Leaf Elementary School
  • Elmwood Elementary School
Questions

Garfield Heights 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.