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Lakewood, Ohio, 4,410 students in 12 schools

Lakewood City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lakewood City School District, measured against Lakewood City School District's own big snow morning of 3.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lakewood City School District close tomorrow?

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

Lakewood City School District’s snow record

47.4inches of snow a winter
4.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Lakewood City School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 96% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

3.3Nov
9.4Dec
16.6Jan
10Feb
5.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.8 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 65.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.1 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 Lakewood City School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Rocky River City School DistrictRocky River39.8 in0.7
Brooklyn City School DistrictBrooklyn47.4 in2
Cleveland Municipal School DistrictCleveland47.4 in2
Westlake City School DistrictWestlake41.9 in1.7
Fairview Park City School DistrictFairview Park39.8 in0.7
Bay Village City School DistrictBay Village41.9 in1.7
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • Lakewood High School
  • Franklin School of Opportunity Online

Middle

  • Garfield Middle School
  • Harding Middle School

Elementary

  • Grant Elementary School
  • Emerson Elementary School
  • Hayes Elementary School
  • Harrison Elementary School
  • Lincoln Elementary School
  • Horace Mann Elementary School
  • Roosevelt Elementary School

Other schools

  • Taft Center for Innovation
Questions

Lakewood City School District 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.