Lorain City School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When is the last day of school for Lorain?

May 27, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Lorain get?

About 37.5 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 6.8 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.5 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Lorain?

9.1 inches on December 2, 2020, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 6.8 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2020 to 2021, with 54.7 inches.

Q: Does Lorain get more snow days than other Ohio districts?

Lorain averages 1.5 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 86 percent of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

Q: How does the Lorain snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Lorain 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 Lorain’s own big snow morning: 3.1 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 6.8 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Lorain close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Lorain.

The Lorain playbook

How Lorain calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call and text message.

“ParentLink : Receive urgent updates via phone or text for emergencies and important notices.”

Making up a lost day

Make-up instruction for calamity hours would start on June 1, 2027.

“Make-up instruction(s) for District Calamity hours would occur starting on 6/1/2027.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 19, 2026
Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
Last day May 27, 2027

District calendar

Recent snow days

2024 to 2025. Classes canceled for snow on Jan 6, 2025, announced around 6:30 a.m.
“Across Northeast Ohio, some schools stayed in session, while in Lorain, they decided to cancel class.”
News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Lorain’s snow record

37.5inches of snow a winter

3.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.5with 4 in or more

3.1 ina big snow morning in Lorain: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 86% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

2Nov

7.9Dec

13.6Jan

8.3Feb

3.9Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 9.1 in on December 2, 2020
Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 54.7 in
6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
1 in mornings 7.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.8 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.

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 Lorain

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Clearview Local School DistrictLorain	37.5 in	1.5
Amherst Exempted Village School DistrictAmherst	37.5 in	1.5
Elyria City School DistrictElyria	37.5 in	1.5
Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City School DistrictSheffield Village	37.5 in	1.5
Firelands Local School DistrictSouth Amherst	32.7 in	1.8
Avon Local School DistrictAvon	41.9 in	1.7

The schools

15 schools

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

High

Lorain High School
New Beginnings

Middle

General Johnnie Wilson Middle School
Southview Middle School
Longfellow Middle School

Elementary

Larkmoor Elementary School
Frank Jacinto Elementary
Toni Wofford Morrison ES
Palm Elementary School
Washington Elementary School
Stevan Dohanos Elementary School
Helen Steiner Rice ES
Admiral King Elementary School
Garfield Elementary School
Hawthorne Elementary School

Questions

Lorain snow day questions

How does Lorain announce a snow day?

When is the last day of school for Lorain?

How much snow does Lorain get?

What was the biggest snow day near Lorain?

Does Lorain get more snow days than other Ohio districts?

How does the Lorain snow day predictor work?

How does Ohio handle snow days?

More winter

More for Ohio snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Ohio winter forecastThe season ahead for Ohio: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.