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Ponderay, Idaho, 3,647 students in 13 schools

Lake Pend Oreille School District 84 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lake Pend Oreille, measured against Lake Pend Oreille's own big snow morning of 5.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lake Pend Oreille close tomorrow?

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

Lake Pend Oreille’s snow record

73.7inches of snow a winter
8.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.3with 4 in or more
5.3 ina big snow morning in Lake Pend Oreille: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 85% of the 87 Idaho districts with a station record.

8.1Nov
22.8Dec
20.9Jan
15Feb
4.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on January 7, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 112.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 14.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 8.4 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 Idaho rule

How Idaho counts a lost day

Idaho requires at least 990 instructional hours for grades 9 to 12, 900 for grades 4 to 8, 810 for grades 1 to 3 and 450 for kindergarten. With local board approval, up to 11 hours of emergency closures for bad weather or facility failures can come off the yearly hours requirement.

The Idaho rules in the agency’s own words, and every Idaho district

Next door

Districts near Lake Pend Oreille

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Lakeland Joint School District 272Rathdrum22.8 in0.9
Coeur d'Alene School District 271Coeur D'alene22.8 in0.92
Post Falls School District 273Post Falls22.8 in0.9
Lewiston Independent School District 340Lewiston17.1 in0.8
Middleton School District 134Middleton14.8 in0.4
Caldwell School District 132Caldwell14.1 in0.9
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Sandpoint High School, Sandpoint
  • Clark Fork Jr/Sr High School, Clark Fork
  • Lake Pend Oreille High School, Sandpoint
  • Sandpoint Juvenile Detention, Sandpoint

Middle

  • Sandpoint Middle School, Sandpoint

Elementary

  • Farmin Stidwell Elementary School, Sandpoint
  • Kootenai Elementary School, Kootenai
  • Washington Elementary School, Sandpoint
  • Sagle Elementary School, Sagle
  • Southside Elementary School, Cocolalla
  • Northside Elementary School, Sandpoint
  • Hope Elementary School, Hope
  • Lposd Home School Academy, Sandpoint
Questions

Lake Pend Oreille snow day questions

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More winter

More for Idaho snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Idaho winter forecastThe season ahead for Idaho: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.