KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As winter weather continues to impact Kansas City, districts across Missouri and Kansas are adjusting their schedules and plans to make up for lost instructional time.
The intense January snowstorm left much of the metro under a foot of snow, causing some schools to close for multiple days.
North Kansas City, Grain Valley and KCK are out of AMI and snow days. Other schools are low, so officials are making plans to extend school days, replace professional development days with school days, and, in one case, send students to school on Presidents’ Day.
Our KSHB 41 beat reporters cover various neighborhoods across the metro. Watch the video below to see the latest on how area districts are adapting.
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Missouri
Blue Springs
- “The last day of school is approved by the Board of Education at the March or April meeting. At this time, it is too soon to say if the school year would be extended," a school spokesperson shared.
Center School District
- Center had five AMI/snow days available for the 2024-2025 school year
- All were used in January
- Any additional closures will require the district to extend the school year
Fort Osage
- All six AMI days have been used
- Any additional missed days will be treated as traditional snow days
- If more school is missed, the make-up plan includes:
- Feb.14 – Early student release followed by professional development
- Feb. 17 — Early release
- April 18 — Early release
- If a third day is missed, April 17 will be a full day of school
- May 27 — Early release
- If a fourth day is missed, May 23 will be a full day of school
- May 28 — Early release
- If a fifth day is missed, May 23 and May 27 will be full days of school
Grain Valley
- The district has used all six AMI days
- Grain Valley surveyed families and decided there will be school on Presidents' Day
- In the case of two more snow days, they will have school on April 18 and 21
- As a last resort, May 27 and 30 will become school days
Grandview
- Three AMI days left
The district built five snow days into its published calendar
- Grandview has used two of those snow days so far
Hickman Mills
- One AMI day left (after 2/11)
- No make-up days will be needed unless a total of nine weather days is exceeded
- If that happens, the district will adjust the March/April professional development schedule
KCPS
- One full day of AMI left
- In the case of more AMI or snow days, days will have to be made up
- Days could be added on to the end of the school year or inserted into the exiting calendar
Lee's Summit
- Any time that needs to be made up will be tacked onto the end of the year
- Current last day of school is May 27
North Kansas City
- The North Kansas City School District has used all built-in snow days and AMI days for this school year
- Future inclement weather could add days to the school year in multiple ways:
- Made up at the end of the year
- Student non-attendance school days
- Teacher workshops or professional development days could become school days
- Decisions will be made based on how many inclement weather days need to be made up
Kansas
KCKPS
- Four inclement weather days on calendar
- District is adding 10 additional minutes to the high school schedule to meet state requirements
Olathe
Olathe has four days built into the calendar
- Three have been used
- One option for making up time is extending the school day for a short period of time, such as 5-10 minutes
- Will continue to monitor instructional hours
Shawnee Mission
- Four snow days left
- Once the district uses the dates built into the calendar, the state forgives four additional days
- No plan yet for what Shawnee Mission would do if the district runs out of days
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