Local school districts are out of snow days after the recent snowstorm caused classes to be cancelled Thursday throughout the greater Niles area.

Brandywine, Buchanan and Niles school districts have all had to cancel school seven days due to inclement weather during the current 2014/15 school year.

School districts are allotted six snow days by the state, meaning school officials will have to find a way to make up at least one day.

Any further cancellations would result in more days needing to be made up.

“We aren’t by any means out of the woods yet when it comes to weather,” said Brandywine Supt. John Jarpe. “It is not looking really promising that we can finish on time the way the weather patterns seem to be setting up this winter.”

Supt. Andrea Van der Laan said Buchanan would make up this snow day and any others in June.

Niles and Brandywine schools will explore all options for making up days, according to each school’s superintendent.

Jarpe said there are different ways the district could make up days, including having students go to school on days that were reserved for professional development.

“We could make an adjustment and make that a half day of instruction, which would still count as a day in session,” he said. “We could extend the calendar in June, but I don’t think that is preferable to staff or students. However, you may be faced with that if we miss any more days.”

The state requires schools to have 175 days of instruction and schools are granted six days missed due to weather.

In the past, schools have had the option to add on minutes to the day to make up missed days.

Brandywine did that last school year when it exceeded the allotted days off, but Jarpe said that is no longer an option.

“You have to have the 175 days,” he said.

Jarpe said he would work with the school’s bargaining units, like the teachers’ union, to determine how to make up snow days.

“We will collaborate and come up with the best solution,” he said.