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Hilliard City School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Hilliard close tomorrow?

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

How Hilliard calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 10:00 p.m. the night before or by 5:30 a.m. the morning of.

“Typically, decisions about school closures or delays are made by 10:00 p.m. the night before or by 5:30 a.m. the morning of a potential closure.”
Source

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“We do consider two-hour delays when they would meaningfully improve road conditions. For example, a delay makes sense if additional time allows road crews to clear streets or dense fog to lift.”

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 19, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 4
  • Last day May 28, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“There isn’t a specific amount of snowfall or a set temperature that automatically triggers a closure; instead, we use all available resources to make informed, case-by-case decisions.”
Board policy

Read from Hilliard’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is hilliardschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Hilliard’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 Hilliard: 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 6.5 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 Hilliard

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Upper Arlington City School DistrictUpper Arlington19.6 in0.6
Grandview Heights City School DistrictColumbus19.6 in0.6
Dublin City School DistrictDublin22 in1
Columbus City School DistrictColumbus19.6 in0.6
South-Western City School DistrictGrove City19.6 in0.66
Jonathan Alder Local School DistrictPlain City22 in1
The schools

24 schools

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

High

  • Hilliard Davidson High School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Bradley High School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Darby High School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Online Academy, Hilliard

Middle

  • Hilliard Weaver Middle School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Heritage Middle School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Memorial Middle School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School, Hilliard

Elementary

  • Ridgewood Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Hilliard Horizon Elementary School
  • Hilliard Crossing Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Alton Darby Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Darby Creek Elementary School, Hilliard
  • J W Reason Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Washington Elementary School, Dublin
  • Brown Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Hoffman Trails Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Britton Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Norwich Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Beacon Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Avery Elementary School, Hilliard
  • Scioto Darby Elementary School, Hilliard

Other schools

  • Hilliard City School District Preschool, Hilliard
Questions

Hilliard 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.