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Westminster, Colorado, 7,631 students in 18 schools

Westminster Public School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Westminster close tomorrow?

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

Westminster’s snow record

50.7inches of snow a winter
4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.3with 4 in or more
5.5 ina big snow morning in Westminster: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 82% of the 177 Colorado districts with a station record.

7.1Nov
5.3Dec
8.3Jan
10.3Feb
9.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on November 26, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2023 to 2024, 75.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.7 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 Westminster

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Mapleton School District 1Denver46 in1.3
Denver County School District 1Denver46.3 in2
Adams County School District 14Commerce City47.8 in1.8
Adams 12 Five Star SchoolsThornton51.1 in1.6
Jefferson County School District R-1Golden70.9 in2.73
Adams-Arapahoe School District 28JAurora40.6 in1.1
The schools

18 schools

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

High

  • Westminster High School
  • Hidden Lake Secondary

Middle

  • Shaw Heights Middle School

Elementary

  • Josephine Hodgkins Leadership Academy, Denver
  • Orchard Park Academy, Denver
  • Colorado Sports Leadership Academy, Denver
  • Colorado STEM Academy
  • Fairview PK-8, Denver
  • Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School, Arvada
  • Sunset Ridge PK-8
  • John E. Flynn A Marzano Academy
  • Metropolitan Arts Academy, Denver
  • Mesa Elementary School
  • Westminster Academy for International Studies
  • Harris Park Elementary School
  • Sherrelwood Elementary School, Denver

Other schools

  • Early Learning Center at Gregory Hill
  • Early Learning Center at Francis M. Day, Denver
Questions

Westminster 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.