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Altoona, Pennsylvania, 7,019 students in 11 schools

Altoona Area School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Altoona, measured against Altoona's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Altoona close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Altoona.
The Altoona playbook

How Altoona calls a snow day

When the call comes

FID decided by 6:00 p.m. the evening before.

“The final decision to fully implement a FID will be made and communicated to all staff, parents, private schools and media outlets by 6:00 p.m. the evening prior to the FID.”
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How families hear

By email, the district website, social media and phone call.

“Any updates regarding changes will be sent via e-mail, school website, social media, phone call, etc.”

Flexible Instructional Days

Altoona has Flexible Instructional Days in its winter plan.

“AASD will be utilizing Flexible Instruction Days (FID) when there is a weather or emergency related situation where children must stay at home to learn virtually for the instructional day.”
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Making up a lost day

Days lost to inclement weather are added to the end of the school year.

“Any days lost due to inclement weather will be added to the end of the school year, subject to change.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Read from Altoona’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is aasdcat.com.

Ten winters of school mornings

Altoona’s snow record

34.3inches of snow a winter
3.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Altoona: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 64% of the 490 Pennsylvania districts with a station record.

3Nov
6Dec
11.5Jan
7.7Feb
4.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.9 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 52.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.5 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.8 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.

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The Pennsylvania rule

How Pennsylvania counts a lost day

Pennsylvania requires either 180 days, or hours: 900 for kindergarten through grade 6 and 990 for grades 7 to 12, as the district chooses. The state forgives no days; districts are expected to build make-up days into the calendar for closures beyond any Flexible Instructional Days.

The Pennsylvania rules in the agency’s own words, and every Pennsylvania district

Next door

Districts near Altoona

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Hollidaysburg Area School DistrictHollidaysburg30.5 in1
Bellwood-Antis School DistrictBellwood27.5 in1.2
Penn Cambria School DistrictCresson34.3 in1.3
Spring Cove School DistrictRoaring Spring30.5 in1
Tyrone Area School DistrictTyrone27.5 in1.2
Cambria Heights School DistrictPatton41.6 in1.1
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Altoona Area HS
  • Kimmel Alternative School

Middle

  • Altoona Area Jr HS

Elementary

  • Juniata Gap El Sch
  • Pleasant Valley El Sch
  • Juniata El Sch
  • Logan El Sch
  • Mowrie A Ebner El Sch
  • Penn-Lincoln El Sch
  • Irving El Sch
  • Baker El Sch
Questions

Altoona 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.