Downingtown Area School District Snow Day Predictor

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

It can. Downingtown has Flexible Instructional Days in its winter plan, up to 5 a year. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

June 4, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 17.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 17.5 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2.1 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.9 with 4 inches or more.

7.5 inches on December 17, 2020, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 17.5 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2020 to 2021, with 37 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Downingtown 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 Downingtown’s own big snow morning: 3.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 17.5 miles away.

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.