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Barrington, Illinois, 8,026 students in 12 schools

Barrington Community Unit School District 220 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Barrington, measured against Barrington's own big snow morning of 2.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Barrington close tomorrow?

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

Barrington’s snow record

25.4inches of snow a winter
2.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.8with 4 in or more
2.9 ina big snow morning in Barrington: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
6.7school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

2.9Nov
5.2Dec
7.9Jan
5.8Feb
2.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.8 in on November 30, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 36.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.8 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 Barrington

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95Lake Zurich35.5 in1
Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15Palatine23.9 in0.5
Township High School District 211Palatine23.9 in0.5
Wauconda Community Unit School District 118Wauconda35.5 in1
Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96Buffalo Grove36.5 in1
Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District 54Schaumburg33.8 in0.92
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • Barrington High School

Middle

  • Barrington Middle Sch Station
  • Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps

Elementary

  • Grove Avenue Elem School
  • Arnett C Lines Elem School
  • Roslyn Road Elem School
  • North Barrington Elem School, North Barrington
  • Countryside Elem School
  • Barbara B Rose Elem School, South Barrington
  • Sunny Hill Elem School, Carpentersville
  • Hough Street Elem School

Other schools

  • Barrington Early Learning Center
Questions

Barrington 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.