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West Jordan, Utah, 59,145 students in 69 schools

Jordan School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Jordan, measured against Jordan's own big snow morning of 4.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Jordan close tomorrow?

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

How Jordan calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website, local TV and radio.

“School closure information will be posted by 6 a.m. on Jordan School District’s website at jordandistrict.org.”
Emergency Communications & Snow Closure Guidelines

1 built in snow day

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Emergency Make-up Day”.

“Emergency Make-up Day / Check-out Day for Teachers. ............................................................................................................ Monday, June 7, 2027”
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Virtual learning days

Jordan has virtual learning days in its winter plan.

“One of the following messages will be aired by the media: “Virtual Learning Day” (day and date); “Schools Will Be Closed” (day and date); “Schools Will Start Late” (day and date); “Schools Will Dismiss Early” (day and date).”
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Making up a lost day

June 7 is the calendar's emergency make-up day; other make-up days are recommended by administration and approved by the board.

“District Policy D207 - Calendar Development: Emergency closure make-up days will be recommended by the Administration and approved by the Board.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 18, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The media will only announce school closures when authorized by the Superintendent of Schools or his/her designee after he/she has consulted with the Administrator of Auxiliary Services, the Transportation Director, the National Weather Service, and other state, county and city agencies.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Jordan’s snow record

42.4inches of snow a winter
4.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
4.5 ina big snow morning in Jordan: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 54% of the 41 Utah districts with a station record.

2.7Nov
6.5Dec
8.3Jan
12.5Feb
8.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.5 in on February 22, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 94.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.1 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 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 Jordan

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Murray School DistrictMurray51.4 in2.4
Canyons School DistrictSandy55.2 in2.8
Granite School DistrictSalt Lake City51.4 in2.4
Salt Lake City School DistrictSalt Lake City90.4 in51
Alpine School DistrictAmerican Fork18.7 in0.3
Tooele School DistrictTooele59.5 in2.9
The schools

69 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Copper Hills High
  • Mountain Ridge High, Herriman
  • Bingham High, South Jordan
  • Herriman High, Herriman
  • Riverton High, Riverton
  • West Jordan High

Middle

  • Sunset Ridge Middle
  • Mountain Creek Middle School, South Jordan
  • Oquirrh Hills Middle, Riverton
  • Fort Herriman Middle, Herriman
  • South Jordan Middle, South Jordan
  • West Hills Middle
  • Elk Ridge Middle, South Jordan
  • South Hills Middle, Riverton
  • Copper Mountain Middle, Herriman
  • West Jordan Middle
  • Hidden Valley Middle, Bluffdale
  • Joel P. Jensen Middle

Elementary

  • Ridge View Elementary, Herriman
  • South Jordan School, South Jordan
  • Fox Hollow School
  • Foothills School, Riverton
  • Golden Fields School, South Jordan
  • Blackridge School, Herriman
  • Silver Crest School, Herriman
  • Eastlake School, South Jordan
  • Aspen Elementary, South Jordan
  • Mountain Point Elementary, Bluffdale
  • Monte Vista School, South Jordan
  • Midas Creek School, Riverton
  • Daybreak School, South Jordan
  • Rose Creek School, Riverton
  • Welby School, South Jordan
  • Bluffdale School, Bluffdale
  • Butterfield Canyon School, Herriman
  • Bastian School, Herriman
  • Hayden Peak School
  • Herriman School, Herriman
  • Oakcrest School

Other schools

  • Preschool, Riverton
Questions

Jordan snow day questions

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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.