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Metropolitan Nashville Public School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Metropolitan Nashville, measured against Metropolitan Nashville's own big snow morning of 3.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Metropolitan Nashville close tomorrow?

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

How Metropolitan Nashville calls a snow day

When the call comes

Families notified by at least 5:30 a.m.

“Our team's intent is to notify families by at least 5:30 a.m. of school delays or closures based on the information available to us at the time of a decision.”
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How families hear

By phone call, local TV, the district website and social media.

“In case of school start delays or closures, families will be notified via a telephone call to the primary phone number listed with their student's school.”
Inclement Weather

Delayed openings

“If schools are delayed, MNPS buses will operate on the delayed schedule. The call-out and social media posts will let you know how long the delay is.”
Delay schedule

7 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Stockpiled inclement weather days”.

“7 Stockpiled inclement weather days”
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Making up a lost day

Stockpiled PD days and holidays may become snow make-up days; no specific dates named.

“Potential snow make-up days: Stockpiled PD days, holidays, etc.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 11, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 4
  • Last day May 25, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. All allotted inclement weather days used by January 30, 2026; the page lists 7 stockpiled days used (Oct 10, Jan 26 to 30, Feb 2) and Feb 16 became a regular school day.
    “As of Friday, January 30, MNPS will have used all allotted inclement weather days for the school year.”
    District notice

Read from Metropolitan Nashville’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is mnps.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Metropolitan Nashville’s snow record

4.1inches of snow a winter
0.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.2with 4 in or more
3.4 ina big snow morning in Metropolitan Nashville: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 60% of the 106 Tennessee districts with a station record.

0.1Nov
0.2Dec
2.6Jan
0.9Feb
0.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 6.3 in on January 6, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 12.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 0.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.1 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 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 Metropolitan Nashville

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Williamson County School DistrictFranklin10
Sumner County School DistrictGallatin4.1 in0.1
Robertson County School DistrictSpringfield3.9 in0.1
Lebanon Special School DistrictLebanon4.1 in0.2
Wilson County School DistrictLebanon4.1 in0.210
Rutherford County School DistrictMurfreesboro
The schools

162 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Antioch High School, Antioch
  • John Overton High
  • Cane Ridge High School, Antioch
  • McGavock High
  • Valor Flagship Academy
  • Hunters Lane High
  • Hillsboro High
  • James Lawson High School
  • Martin Luther King Jr School
  • Glencliff High School
  • Hume - Fogg High
  • Intrepid College Preparatory Charter School, Antioch
  • LEAD Southeast
  • Stratford STEM Magnet School
  • Maplewood High
  • RePublic High School
  • Whites Creek High, Whites Creek

Middle

  • John F. Kennedy Middle, Antioch
  • Thurgood Marshall Middle, Antioch
  • Apollo Middle, Antioch
  • Meigs Middle
  • Antioch Middle, Antioch
  • McMurray Middle
  • Wright Middle

Elementary

  • Cole Elementary, Antioch
  • Mt. View Elementary, Antioch
  • Smith Springs Elementary School, Antioch
  • East End Preparatory School
  • Una Elementary
  • Cane Ridge Elementary, Antioch
  • Harpeth Valley Elementary
  • Norman Binkley Elementary
  • May Werthan Shayne Elementary School
  • J. E. Moss Elementary, Antioch
  • A. Z. Kelley Elementary, Antioch
  • Eagle View Elementary School, Antioch
  • Granbery Elementary, Brentwood
  • Glenview Elementary
  • Tusculum Elementary
  • Gower Elementary
Questions

Metropolitan Nashville snow day questions

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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.