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Littleton, Colorado, 13,251 students in 20 schools

Littleton School District 6 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Littleton, measured against Littleton's own big snow morning of 6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Littleton close tomorrow?

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

Littleton’s snow record

59.5inches of snow a winter
4.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
6 ina big snow morning in Littleton: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 76% of the 177 Colorado districts with a station record.

7.7Nov
5.6Dec
9.4Jan
11.3Feb
12.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14.9 in on March 15, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2019 to 2020, 94.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.7 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 Littleton

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Cherry Creek School District 5Greenwood Village43.3 in1.7
Denver County School District 1Denver46.3 in2
Jefferson County School District R-1Golden70.9 in2.73
Adams-Arapahoe School District 28JAurora40.6 in1.1
Adams County School District 14Commerce City47.8 in1.8
Westminster Public School DistrictWestminster50.7 in2.3
The schools

20 schools

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

High

  • Arapahoe High School, Centennial
  • Heritage High School
  • Littleton High School

Middle

  • Newton Middle School, Centennial
  • Euclid Middle School
  • Goddard Middle School
  • John Wesley Powell Middle School

Elementary

  • Ford Elementary, Centennial
  • Wilder Elementary School
  • Gudy Gaskill Elementary, Centennial
  • Littleton Prep Charter School
  • Lois Lenski Elementary School, Centennial
  • Sandburg Elementary School, Centennial
  • Littleton Academy
  • Little Raven Elementary School
  • Runyon Elementary School
  • Hopkins Elementary School, Centennial
  • Centennial Academy of Fine Arts Education
  • Field Elementary School

Other schools

  • The Village, Centennial
Questions

Littleton 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.