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Sandy, Utah, 33,196 students in 50 schools

Canyons School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Canyons close tomorrow?

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

How Canyons calls a snow day

Remote learning days

Canyons has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“Note: School emergency closure days will be made up by scheduling remote learning day(s)”
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Making up a lost day

Emergency closure days are made up by scheduling remote learning days.

“Note: School emergency closure days will be made up by scheduling remote learning day(s)”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 17, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2022 to 2023. Two-hour delayed start on Feb. 23, 2023 after extreme weather.
    “Because of this week’s extreme weather and challenging travel conditions, and out of concern for the safety of students and employee, Canyons District will delay the start of school for two hours on Thursday, Feb. 23.”
    District notice

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Canyons’s snow record

55.2inches of snow a winter
5.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.8with 4 in or more
5.1 ina big snow morning in Canyons: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 68% of the 41 Utah districts with a station record.

6.5Nov
9.8Dec
10.3Jan
14.8Feb
9.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 25 in on November 29, 2016
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 102.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.7 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 Utah rule

How Utah counts a lost day

Utah requires at least 180 school days of educational services. No fixed count; a district that closes for snow and would fall short of 180 days can ask the State Superintendent for a waiver, granted without Board approval if it built contingency days into its calendar.

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

Next door

Districts near Canyons

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Murray School DistrictMurray51.4 in2.4
Jordan School DistrictWest Jordan42.4 in21
Granite School DistrictSalt Lake City51.4 in2.4
Salt Lake City School DistrictSalt Lake City90.4 in51
Alpine School DistrictAmerican Fork18.7 in0.3
Park City School DistrictPark City134.5 in7.9
The schools

50 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Corner Canyon High, Draper
  • Brighton High, Salt Lake City
  • Hillcrest High, Midvale
  • Alta High
  • Jordan High

Middle

  • Draper Park Middle, Draper
  • Indian Hills Middle
  • Albion Middle
  • Butler Middle, Salt Lake City
  • Union Middle
  • Midvale Middle
  • Mt. Jordan Middle
  • Eastmont Middle

Elementary

  • Draper School, Draper
  • Sunrise School
  • Midvale School, Midvale
  • Midvalley School, Midvale
  • Butler School, Salt Lake City
  • Glacier Hills Elementary
  • Silver Mesa School
  • Willow Springs School, Draper
  • Alta View School
  • Altara School
  • Oak Hollow School, Draper
  • Peruvian Park School
  • East Midvale School, Midvale
  • Lone Peak School
  • Ridgecrest School, Cottonwood Heights
  • Sandy School
  • Canyon View School, Salt Lake City
  • Crescent School
  • Quail Hollow School
  • East Sandy School
  • Willow Canyon School
  • Brookwood School
  • Oakdale School
  • Copperview School, Midvale
  • Park Lane School
  • Granite School

Other schools

  • Special Ed Preschool
Questions

Canyons snow day questions

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More winter

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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.