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Aurora, Illinois, 12,260 students in 20 schools

Aurora East Unit School District 131 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Aurora East, measured against Aurora East's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Aurora East close tomorrow?

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

Aurora East’s snow record

25.6inches of snow a winter
2.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.8with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Aurora East: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
5.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 74% of the 788 Illinois districts with a station record.

2.5Nov
3.8Dec
9.4Jan
7.2Feb
1.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on February 9, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 39.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.4 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 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 Aurora East

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Aurora West Unit School District 129Aurora25.6 in0.8
Oswego Community Unit School District 308Oswego23.8 in0.45
Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204Aurora22.6 in0.15
Batavia Unit School District 101Batavia30.7 in0.5
Naperville Community Unit District 203Naperville20.9 in0.85
Yorkville Community Unit School District 115Yorkville25.6 in0.8
The schools

20 schools

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

High

  • East High School

Middle

  • Henry W Cowherd Middle School
  • K D Waldo Middle School
  • C F Simmons Middle School
  • Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad

Elementary

  • Olney C Allen Elem School
  • C M Bardwell Elem School
  • Nicholas A Hermes Elem School
  • Edna Rollins Elem School
  • G N Dieterich Elem School
  • John Gates Elem School
  • Mabel O Donnell Elem School
  • Oak Park Elem School
  • Benavides Steam Academy
  • L D Brady Elem School
  • Rose E Krug Elem School
  • C I Johnson Elem School
  • W S Beaupre Elem School

Other schools

  • Child Service Center Preschool
  • Early Childhood Dev Cntr
Questions

Aurora East snow day questions

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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.