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Mason, Ohio, 10,289 students in 4 schools

Mason City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Mason, measured against Mason's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Mason close tomorrow?

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

How Mason calls a snow day

How families hear

By email, phone call and text message.

“Will receive emails/calls/texts with information”
Delay Schedules - Mason City School District

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“(bus picks up 2 hours later than normal)”
Delay schedule

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

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

The board policy

“Mason City Schools will close on days when the temperature and/or wind chill are below -20ºF to -25ºF.”
Board policy

Read from Mason’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is masonohioschools.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Mason’s snow record

19.8inches of snow a winter
2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.7with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Mason: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 50% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

1.2Nov
4.3Dec
6.3Jan
5.4Feb
1.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 6.5 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 34.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 9.5 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 Mason

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Kings Local School DistrictKings Mills19.8 in0.7
Little Miami Local School DistrictMaineville19.8 in0.7
Princeton City School DistrictCincinnati19.8 in0.7
Lakota Local School DistrictLiberty Township13.6 in1
Loveland City School DistrictLoveland19.8 in0.7
Monroe Local School DistrictMonroe13.6 in1
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • William Mason High School

Middle

  • Mason Middle School

Elementary

  • Mason Intermediate Elementary School

Other schools

  • Mason Early Childhood Center Elementary School
Questions

Mason 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.