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Medina, Ohio, 6,095 students in 11 schools

Medina City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Medina, measured against Medina's own big snow morning of 3.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Medina close tomorrow?

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

How Medina calls a snow day

How families hear

By local TV, radio, the district website and phone call.

“The decision made by the Superintendent will be announced to local television, radio stations, the District's website, and the automated caller system.”
School Closing Policy - Medina City Schools

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“With Two Hour Delay 10:45 a.m. start; 12:15 p.m. morning Kdg release; 2:00 p.m. afternoon Kdg start; 3:30 p.m. end”
Delay schedule

7 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “calamity days (in hours)”.

“The Board has agreed to allow for the equivalent of 7 school days in hours for calamity.”
Source

Making up a lost day

If make-up days are needed they come after the last student day, in order: May 28, June 1, June 2, June 3, June 4.

“If make-up days are required, they will be made up in the following manner and order: Day One: Attending school on May 28 Day Two: Attending school on June 1”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 19, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 18 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Medina’s snow record

52.1inches of snow a winter
5.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.9with 4 in or more
3.4 ina big snow morning in Medina: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 92% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

3.5Nov
10.5Dec
19Jan
10Feb
6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.7 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 66.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.6 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 Medina

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Buckeye Local School DistrictMedina52.1 in1.9
Highland Local School DistrictMedina52.1 in1.9
Brunswick City School DistrictBrunswick52.1 in1.9
Cloverleaf Local School DistrictLodi52.1 in1.9
Copley-Fairlawn City School DistrictCopley34 in0.8
Wadsworth City School DistrictWadsworth34 in0.8
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Medina High School
  • Evolve Academy

Middle

  • Claggett Middle School
  • A. I. Root Middle School

Elementary

  • Eliza Northrop Elementary
  • Ralph E. Waite Elementary
  • H G Blake Elementary School
  • Sidney Fenn Elementary School
  • Ella Canavan Elementary School
  • Heritage Elementary School
  • Garfield Elementary School
Questions

Medina snow day questions

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More winter

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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.