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Liberty Township, Ohio, 17,887 students in 22 schools

Lakota Local School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lakota Local School District, measured against Lakota Local School District's own big snow morning of 4.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lakota Local School District close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Liberty Township.
The Lakota Local School District playbook

How Lakota Local School District calls a snow day

When the call comes

Around 5 a.m.

“Around 5 a.m. the COO reviews the conditions with the superintendent, who makes the decision whether to delay or close school.”
Source

How families hear

By the district website, social media, email, phone call, text message, the district app, local TV and radio.

“Lakota also uses its notification system to dispatch an email, phone call, text message and push notification (if you have the ParentSquare app downloaded) to all subscribers immediately impacted by the closure or delay.”
Unscheduled School Closings - Lakota Local School District

Making up a lost day

Hours or days are added only if a school falls below the state minimum.

“Should any Lakota school fall below the required minimum hours due to unscheduled school closings or delays, additional hours/days will be added to the current schedule.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 13, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 20, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“There is no specific temperature at which school is closed.”
Board policy

Read from Lakota Local School District’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is lakotaonline.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Lakota Local School District’s snow record

13.6inches of snow a winter
1.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
4.8 ina big snow morning in Lakota Local School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

0.6Nov
2.7Dec
5.3Jan
4.6Feb
0.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 27.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 13 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 Lakota Local School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Monroe Local School DistrictMonroe13.6 in1
Fairfield City School DistrictFairfield20 in0.7
Hamilton City School DistrictHamilton13.6 in1
Princeton City School DistrictCincinnati19.8 in0.7
Mason City School DistrictMason19.8 in0.7
Edgewood City School DistrictTrenton13.6 in1
The schools

22 schools

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

High

  • Lakota West High School, West Chester
  • Lakota East High School
  • Lakota Central, West Chester

Middle

  • Lakota Plains Junior School
  • Liberty Junior School
  • Lakota Ridge Junior School, West Chester
  • Hopewell Junior School, West Chester

Elementary

  • Cherokee Elementary School, Liberty Twp
  • Freedom Elementary School, West Chester
  • Endeavor Elementary School, West
  • Adena Elementary School, West Chester
  • Woodland Elementary School
  • Union Elementary School, West Chester
  • VanGorden Elementary School
  • Independence Elementary School

Other schools

  • Creekside Early Childhood School, West Chester
  • Hopewell Early Childhood School, West Chester
  • Wyandot Early Childhood School, Liberty
  • Shawnee Early Childhood School, Cincinnati
  • Heritage Early Childhood School, Liberty Twp
  • Liberty Early Childhood School, Liberty Twp
  • VanGorden Preschool, Liberty Twp
Questions

Lakota Local 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.