Mentor Exempted Village School District Snow Day Predictor

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

May 26, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Mentor get?

About 51.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 8 miles away, averaged over 8 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 5.4 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.9 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Mentor?

17.5 inches on December 10, 2016, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 8 miles away in 8 winters. The snowiest winter was 2016 to 2017, with 72.8 inches.

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

Mentor averages 1.9 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 92 percent of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

Q: How does the Mentor snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Mentor 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 Mentor’s own big snow morning: 3.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 8 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Mentor close tomorrow?

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

The Mentor playbook

How Mentor calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

The Superintendent decides whether make-up days are needed after multiple calamity days; no make-up dates are set on the calendar.

“In compliance with the state regulations on required hours of school attendance, the Superintendent will determine if make-up days are needed when multiple calamity days occur in a school year.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 17, 2026
Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
Last day May 26, 2027

District calendar

Read from Mentor’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is mentorschools.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Mentor’s snow record

51.7inches of snow a winter

5.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.9with 4 in or more

3.8 ina big snow morning in Mentor: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

3.4Nov

12.6Dec

17.5Jan

11Feb

5.9Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 17.5 in on December 10, 2016
Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 72.8 in
6 in mornings 1 a winter
1 in mornings 9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 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 Mentor

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Kirtland Local School DistrictKirtland	51.7 in	1.9
Riverside Local School DistrictPainesville	88.4 in	4.9
Willoughby-Eastlake City School DistrictEastlake	51.7 in	1.9
Wickliffe City School DistrictWickliffe	51.7 in	1.9
Chardon Local School DistrictChardon	88.4 in	4.9
Perry Local School DistrictPerry	88.4 in	4.9

The schools

13 schools

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

High

Mentor High School

Middle

Memorial Middle School
Shore Middle School

Elementary

Ridge Elementary School
Hopkins Elementary School
Bellflower Elementary School
Orchard Hollow Elementary School
Fairfax Elementary School
Sterling Morton Elementary School
Lake Elementary School, Mentor On The Lake

Other schools

Garfield Preschool
Cardinal Autism Resource and Education School (CARES)
Mentor High School Preschool

Questions

Mentor snow day questions

When is the last day of school for Mentor?

How much snow does Mentor get?

What was the biggest snow day near Mentor?

Does Mentor get more snow days than other Ohio districts?

How does the Mentor 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.