Worthington City School District Snow Day Predictor

Worthington announces closings by 5:45 a.m. (goal), sometimes the night before, by its own published protocol.

By email, phone call, text message, the district app, the district website and social media, and on the district’s own closings page.

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

May 27, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 12.6 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.6 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 Worthington 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 Worthington’s own big snow morning: 2.6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.6 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.