Westerville City School District Snow Day Predictor

Westerville announces closings the night before when possible, as late as 5:30 a.m, by its own published protocol.

By phone call, text message, email, the district website, local TV and radio, and on the district’s own closings page.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

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

About 12.6 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.2 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.5 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.1 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Westerville 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 Westerville’s own big snow morning: 2.6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.2 miles away.

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.