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Northwest Local School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Northwest Local School District, measured against Northwest Local School District's own big snow morning of 3.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Northwest Local School District close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Cincinnati.
The Northwest Local School District playbook

How Northwest Local School District calls a snow day

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Due to inclement weather, all NWLSD schools will be on a 2-Hour Delay December 12, 2025. No AM preschool. Please allow 2 hours from your normal starting time before arriving. Buses will also run on a 2-hour delay.”
Delay schedule

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 Northwest Local School District’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is nwlsd.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Northwest Local School District’s snow record

20inches of snow a winter
2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.7with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Northwest Local School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

1.6Nov
4.6Dec
7Jan
6Feb
0.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7 in on January 6, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 33.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.4 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 Northwest Local School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
North College Hill City School DistrictCincinnati20 in0.7
Mount Healthy City School DistrictCincinnati20 in0.7
Finneytown Local School DistrictCincinnati20 in0.7
Wyoming City School DistrictWyoming20 in0.7
Winton Woods City School DistrictCincinnati20 in0.7
Cincinnati City School DistrictCincinnati20 in0.7
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Colerain High School
  • Northwest High School

Middle

  • White Oak Middle School
  • Pleasant Run Middle School
  • Colerain Middle School

Elementary

  • Pleasant Run Elementary School
  • Struble Elementary School
  • Taylor Elementary School
  • Colerain Elementary School
  • Monfort Heights Elementary School

Other schools

  • Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center
Questions

Northwest Local School District 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.