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Monument, Colorado, 6,405 students in 10 schools

Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lewis-Palmer, measured against Lewis-Palmer's own big snow morning of 5.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lewis-Palmer close tomorrow?

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

Lewis-Palmer’s snow record

83.8inches of snow a winter
6.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.8with 4 in or more
5.5 ina big snow morning in Lewis-Palmer: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 86% of the 177 Colorado districts with a station record.

9.4Nov
7Dec
13.4Jan
13.9Feb
16.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on March 14, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 112.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.8 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 Lewis-Palmer

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Academy School District 20Colorado Springs59.5 in2.3
School District 49Peyton50.1 in2.1
Colorado Springs School District 11Colorado Springs38.5 in1
Douglas County School District RE-1Castle Rock52 in1.6
Cheyenne Mountain School District 12Colorado Springs42.9 in1.3
Harrison School District 2Colorado Springs44.5 in1.3
The schools

10 schools

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

High

  • Lewis-Palmer High School
  • Palmer Ridge High School
  • Monument Charter Academy Secondary School, Colorado Springs

Middle

  • Lewis-Palmer Middle School

Elementary

  • Bear Creek Elementary School
  • Monument Charter Academy
  • Lewis-Palmer Elementary School
  • Prairie Winds Elementary School
  • Ray E Kilmer Elementary School, Colorado Springs
  • Palmer Lake Elementary School, Palmer Lake
Questions

Lewis-Palmer snow day questions

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More winter

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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.