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Summit School District RE-1 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Summit RE-1, measured against Summit RE-1's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Summit RE-1 close tomorrow?

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

Summit RE-1’s snow record

120.3inches of snow a winter
10.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Summit RE-1: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
23.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 90% of the 177 Colorado districts with a station record.

13.8Nov
20Dec
20.3Jan
16.9Feb
16.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14 in on November 27, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 173 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 18.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.2 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 Summit RE-1

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Eagle County School District RE 50Eagle90.9 in2.9
Jefferson County School District R-1Golden70.9 in2.73
Boulder Valley School District RE-2Boulder71.9 in2.5
Littleton School District 6Littleton59.5 in2
Westminster Public School DistrictWestminster50.7 in2.3
Denver County School District 1Denver46.3 in2
The schools

9 schools

Every school in Summit RE-1 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Summit High School, Breckenridge
  • Snowy Peaks Junior/Senior High School

Middle

  • Summit Middle School

Elementary

  • Dillon Valley Elementary School, Dillon
  • Silverthorne Elementary School, Silverthorne
  • Upper Blue Elementary School, Breckenridge
  • Frisco Elementary School
  • Summit Cove Elementary School, Dillon
  • Breckenridge Elementary School, Breckenridge
Questions

Summit RE-1 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.