North Allegheny School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When does North Allegheny call a snow day?

North Allegheny announces closings goal of 5:30 AM, by its own published protocol.

Q: How does North Allegheny announce a snow day?

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

Q: How many snow days does North Allegheny have built in?

2 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “snow days”.

Q: Does North Allegheny switch to remote learning on a snow day?

It can. North Allegheny 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".

Q: How long is a delayed start in North Allegheny?

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

Q: How does the North Allegheny snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Pittsburgh 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 North Allegheny’s own big snow morning: 3 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 5.2 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will North Allegheny close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Pittsburgh.

The North Allegheny playbook

How North Allegheny calls a snow day

When the call comes

Goal of 5:30 AM.

“our goal is to make a decision about delaying or canceling school by 5:30 AM, since some of our high school students and staff are on the road by 6:00 AM.”

Source

How families hear

By the district website, local TV and phone call.

“The information is also communicated on local television stations and through the district’s SchoolMessenger system. The district will not post delays and closings to social media.”

Closings & Delays - North Allegheny School District

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“When a two-hour delay is called, students should be at their bus stop two hours after their normal reporting time.”

Delay schedule

2 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “snow days”.

“If school is canceled due to inclement weather, there will be no school on the first two canceled days, utilizing the two snow days built into the school calendar.”

Source

Flexible Instructional Days

North Allegheny has Flexible Instructional Days in its winter plan, up to 5 a year.

“Implementing a FID/Remote Learning Day will not require additional make-up days when school is canceled. The district can use up to five FID/Remote Learning Days per school year.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 18, 2026
Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
Last day May 28, 2027

District calendar

Read from North Allegheny’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is northallegheny.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

North Allegheny’s snow record

11.9inches of snow a winter

1.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.4with 4 in or more

3 ina big snow morning in North Allegheny: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

1.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

0.1Nov

2.2Dec

6.3Jan

2.6Feb

0.7Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 9 in on January 26, 2026
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 23.6 in
6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
1 in mornings 3.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.2 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.

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 North Allegheny

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
North Hills School DistrictPittsburgh	11.9 in	0.4
Avonworth School DistrictPittsburgh	11.9 in	0.4
Northgate School DistrictPittsburgh	11.9 in	0.4
Shaler Area School DistrictGlenshaw	11.9 in	0.4
Hampton Township School DistrictAllison Park	17.3 in	1.3
Pine-Richland School DistrictGibsonia	38.9 in	1.4

The schools

11 schools

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

High

North Allegheny HS, Wexford

Middle

Marshall MS, Wexford
Carson MS
Ingomar MS

Elementary

McKnight El Sch
Marshall El Sch, Wexford
Franklin El Sch, Sewickley
Peebles El Sch
Ingomar El Sch
Bradford Woods El Sch, Bradford Woods
Hosack El Sch, Allison Park

Questions

North Allegheny snow day questions

When does North Allegheny call a snow day?

How does North Allegheny announce a snow day?

How many snow days does North Allegheny have built in?

Does North Allegheny switch to remote learning on a snow day?

How long is a delayed start in North Allegheny?

How does the North Allegheny snow day predictor work?

How does Pennsylvania handle snow days?

More winter

More for Pennsylvania snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Pennsylvania winter forecastThe season ahead for Pennsylvania: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.