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West Liberty, Ohio, 1,131 students in 3 schools

West Liberty-Salem Local School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in West Liberty-Salem, measured against West Liberty-Salem's own big snow morning of 3.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will West Liberty-Salem close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in West Liberty.
Ten winters of school mornings

West Liberty-Salem’s snow record

18.7inches of snow a winter
1.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.7with 4 in or more
3.7 ina big snow morning in West Liberty-Salem: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

1.3Nov
3.2Dec
6.4Jan
5.8Feb
1.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.3 in on February 16, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 33.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 10.6 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 West Liberty-Salem

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Urbana City School DistrictUrbana18.7 in0.7
Bellefontaine City School DistrictBellefontaine18.7 in0.7
Graham Local School DistrictSaint Paris18.7 in0.7
Benjamin Logan Local School DistrictBellefontaine18.7 in0.7
Northeastern Local School DistrictSpringfield18.7 in0.7
Indian Lake Local School DistrictLewistown18.7 in0.7
The schools

3 schools

Every school in West Liberty-Salem follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • West Liberty-Salem High School

Middle

  • West Liberty-Salem Middle School

Elementary

  • West Liberty-Salem Elementary School
Questions

West Liberty-Salem 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.