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Arlington Heights, Illinois, 5,303 students in 9 schools

Arlington Heights School District 25 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Arlington Heights, measured against Arlington Heights's own big snow morning of 3.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Arlington Heights close tomorrow?

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

Arlington Heights’s snow record

33.8inches of snow a winter
3.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.9with 4 in or more
3.2 ina big snow morning in Arlington Heights: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 79% of the 788 Illinois districts with a station record.

4.2Nov
4.9Dec
11.1Jan
8.5Feb
3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.5 in on November 26, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 57.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.9 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 Illinois rule

How Illinois counts a lost day

Illinois requires a calendar of at least 185 days to guarantee 176 days of actual student attendance, each of at least 5 clock hours. The extra calendar days are emergency days used first; after they are gone, the State Superintendent may excuse days lost to an act of God or a hazard beyond the district's control without cutting state aid.

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

Next door

Districts near Arlington Heights

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Township High School District 214Arlington Heights33.8 in0.9
Community Consolidated School District 59Elk Grove Vlg30.9 in0.7
Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62Des Plaines26.1 in0.6
Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District 54Schaumburg33.8 in0.92
Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15Palatine23.9 in0.5
Township High School District 211Palatine23.9 in0.5
The schools

9 schools

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

Middle

  • Thomas Middle School
  • South Middle School

Elementary

  • Olive-Mary Stitt School
  • Westgate Elem School
  • Ivy Hill Elem School
  • Dryden Elem School
  • Windsor Elementary School
  • Patton Elem School
  • Greenbrier Elem School
Questions

Arlington Heights 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.