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Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Cheyenne Mountain, measured against Cheyenne Mountain's own big snow morning of 4.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Cheyenne Mountain close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Colorado Springs.
Ten winters of school mornings

Cheyenne Mountain’s snow record

42.9inches of snow a winter
3.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
4.1 ina big snow morning in Cheyenne Mountain: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 54% of the 177 Colorado districts with a station record.

4.1Nov
3.3Dec
5.3Jan
11.1Feb
7.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.4 in on October 29, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2019 to 2020, 78.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Colorado rule

How Colorado counts a lost day

Colorado requires at least 160 days, with 1,080 scheduled hours in secondary school and 990 in elementary. The scheduled hours can drop to 1,056 (secondary), 968 (elementary), 870 (full-day kindergarten) or 435 (half-day kindergarten) to cover conferences, staff training and closings the board judges necessary for student health, safety or welfare.

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

Next door

Districts near Cheyenne Mountain

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Harrison School District 2Colorado Springs44.5 in1.3
Colorado Springs School District 11Colorado Springs38.5 in1
Widefield School District 3Colorado Springs31.6 in1
Academy School District 20Colorado Springs59.5 in2.3
Fountain School District 8Fountain31.6 in1
School District 49Peyton50.1 in2.1
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • Cheyenne Mountain High School

Middle

  • Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School

Elementary

  • Gold Camp Elementary School
  • Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School
  • Pinon Valley Elementary School
  • Broadmoor Elementary School
  • Skyway Park Elementary School

Other schools

  • Canon Elementary School
  • Zebulon Pike
Questions

Cheyenne Mountain 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.