Kettering City School District Snow Day Predictor

By the district website, social media, text message, phone call, email, the district app and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 20, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 19.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 7.7 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.8 with 4 inches or more.

9 inches on January 25, 2026, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 7.7 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 34 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Kettering through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Kettering’s own big snow morning: 3.1 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 7.7 miles away.

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.