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Erie, Pennsylvania, 10,493 students in 15 schools

Erie City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Erie, measured against Erie's own big snow morning of 5.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Erie close tomorrow?

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

How Erie calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. All schools closed Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026 for extreme cold and wind chill, made up on Snow Make-Up Day 2 (Mar 13).
    “Due to the extreme temperatures and windchill forecast for Tuesday, all Erie’s Public Schools will be CLOSED on Tuesday, Jan. 27. Students will make up the day on Friday, March 13 (Snow Make-Up Day 2”
    District notice

Read from Erie’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is eriesd.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Erie’s snow record

79.1inches of snow a winter
8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.3with 4 in or more
5.1 ina big snow morning in Erie: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 98% of the 490 Pennsylvania districts with a station record.

10.8Nov
22.2Dec
26.7Jan
10.8Feb
7.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 22.6 in on November 29, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 166.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.8 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 Erie

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Iroquois School DistrictErie62.6 in1.6
Millcreek Township School DistrictErie79.1 in4.3
Harbor Creek School DistrictHarborcreek62.6 in1.6
Wattsburg Area School DistrictErie95.9 in4.5
Fairview School DistrictFairview79.1 in4.3
Fort LeBoeuf School DistrictWaterford95.9 in4.5
The schools

15 schools

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

High

  • Erie HS
  • Northwest PA Collegiate Academy

Middle

  • Woodrow Wilson MS
  • Strong Vincent MS
  • East MS

Elementary

  • Harding Sch
  • Pfeiffer-Burleigh Sch
  • Grover Cleveland El Sch
  • JoAnna Connell Sch
  • McKinley El Sch
  • Perry El Sch
  • Diehl Sch
  • Jefferson El Sch
  • Edison El Sch
  • Lincoln El Sch
Questions

Erie snow day questions

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More winter

More for Pennsylvania snow days

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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.