Columbia, Tennessee, 13,084 students in 23 schools

Maury County School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How many snow days does Maury have built in?

8 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “inclement weather days (stockpile)”.

Q: When is the last day of school for Maury?

May 21, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How does the Maury snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Columbia through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and weighs them against how Tennessee districts handle a bad morning.

Q: Can Tennessee schools hold a remote day instead?

A district may move a class, a school or every school to remote instruction for dangerous or extreme weather; up to 5 days each semester of the required 180 may be delivered remotely.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Maury, read from the National Weather Service forecast for Columbia.

The next three school mornings

Will Maury close tomorrow?

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

The Maury playbook

How Maury calls a snow day

8 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “inclement weather days (stockpile)”.

“Number of Teaching Days (including 8 inclement weather days*)”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 3, 2026
Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 4
Last day May 21, 2027

District calendar

Read from Maury’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is mauryk12.org.

The Tennessee rule

How Tennessee counts a lost day

Tennessee requires at least 180 days of classroom instruction, with a 6.5 hour instructional day. A district that runs a half hour longer than the required 6.5 hour day all year banks the extra time as up to 13 stockpile days, which can cover days lost to dangerous or extreme weather.

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

Next door

Districts near Maury

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Williamson County School DistrictFranklin			10
Giles County School DistrictPulaski	2.7 in	0.2
Lawrence County School DistrictLawrenceburg	2.7 in	0.2
Bedford County School DistrictShelbyville	3.1 in	0.3
Rutherford County School DistrictMurfreesboro
Metropolitan Nashville Public School DistrictNashville	4.1 in	0.2	7

The schools

23 schools

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

High

Columbia Central High School
Spring Hill High School
Mt Pleasant High School, Mt Pleasant
Northfield Academy
Virtual Academy of Maury County

Middle

Whitthorne Middle School
Battle Creek Middle School, Spring Hill
E. A. Cox Middle School
Spring Hill Middle School, Spring Hill
Mt. Pleasant Middle Visual Perform. Arts, Mt. Pleasant

Elementary

Battle Creek Elementary School, Spring Hill
Marvin Wright Elementary School, Spring Hill
R Howell Elementary
J E Woody Elementary, Mt Pleasant
J E Woodard Elementary
Spring Hill Elementary, Spring Hill
Riverside Elementary
J. Brown Elementary
J. R. Baker Elementary
Highland Park Elementary

Other schools

Culleoka Unit School, Culleoka
Santa Fe Unit School, Santa Fe
Hampshire Unit School, Hampshire

Questions

Maury snow day questions

How many snow days does Maury have built in?

When is the last day of school for Maury?

How does the Maury snow day predictor work?

How does Tennessee handle snow days?

Can Tennessee schools hold a remote day instead?

More winter

More for Tennessee 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.Tennessee winter forecastThe season ahead for Tennessee: 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.