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Aurora, Illinois, 11,035 students in 17 schools

Aurora West Unit School District 129 Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Aurora West close tomorrow?

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

Aurora West’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 West: 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 2.9 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 Aurora West

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Aurora East Unit School District 131Aurora25.6 in0.8
Oswego Community Unit School District 308Oswego23.8 in0.45
Batavia Unit School District 101Batavia30.7 in0.5
Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204Aurora22.6 in0.15
Yorkville Community Unit School District 115Yorkville25.6 in0.8
Geneva Community Unit School District 304Geneva25.9 in0.1
The schools

17 schools

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

High

  • West Aurora High School

Middle

  • Washington Middle School
  • Herget Middle School
  • Jefferson Middle School
  • Jewel Middle School, North Aurora

Elementary

  • McCleery Elem School
  • Hall Elem School
  • Freeman Elem School
  • Greenman Elem School
  • Hill Elem School
  • Fearn Elementary School, North Aurora
  • Smith Elem School
  • Schneider Elem School, North Aurora
  • Nicholson Elem School, Montgomery
  • Goodwin Elem School, North Aurora

Other schools

  • West Aurora Learning Center/ELA
  • Hope D Wall TMH Child Dev Ctr
Questions

Aurora West snow day questions

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More winter

More for Illinois snow days

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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.