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Fountain, Colorado, 7,885 students in 13 schools

Fountain School District 8 Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Fountain close tomorrow?

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

Fountain’s snow record

31.6inches of snow a winter
2.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
4.1 ina big snow morning in Fountain: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.6Nov
3.6Dec
7.8Jan
7.3Feb
3.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on January 9, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 59.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.1 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 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 Fountain

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Widefield School District 3Colorado Springs31.6 in1
Harrison School District 2Colorado Springs44.5 in1.3
Cheyenne Mountain School District 12Colorado Springs42.9 in1.3
Colorado Springs School District 11Colorado Springs38.5 in1
School District 49Peyton50.1 in2.1
Academy School District 20Colorado Springs59.5 in2.3
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Fountain-Fort Carson High School
  • Welte Education Center

Middle

  • Fountain Middle School
  • Carson Middle School, Fort Carson

Elementary

  • Weikel Elementary School, Colorado Springs
  • Mesa Elementary School
  • Jordahl Elementary School
  • Patriot Elementary School, Fort Carson
  • Abrams Elementary School, Fort Carson
  • Aragon Elementary School
  • Eagleside Elementary School
  • Mountainside Elementary School, Fort Carson

Other schools

  • Conrad Early Learning Center
Questions

Fountain snow day questions

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More winter

More for Colorado snow days

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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.