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Central Community Unit School District 301 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Central Community Unit School District 301, measured against Central Community Unit School District 301's own big snow morning of 4.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Central Community Unit School District 301 close tomorrow?

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

Central Community Unit School District 301’s snow record

34.7inches of snow a winter
2.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
4.2 ina big snow morning in Central Community Unit School District 301: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 98% of the 788 Illinois districts with a station record.

4.3Nov
5.8Dec
11.3Jan
7.4Feb
3.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.4 in on November 26, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 67.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.9 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 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 Central Community Unit School District 301

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Sycamore Community Unit School District 427Sycamore26 in0.1
Huntley Consolidated School District 158Algonquin26.7 in0.6
Kaneland Community Unit School District 302Maple Park32.4 in1.1
Community Unit School District 300Algonquin26.7 in0.65
DeKalb Community Unit School District 428Dekalb25 in0.5
School District U-46Elgin27.1 in0.75
The schools

7 schools

Every school in Central Community Unit School District 301 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Central High School, Burilngton

Middle

  • Prairie Knolls Middle Sch, Elgin
  • Central Middle School

Elementary

  • Country Trails Elem, Elgin
  • Prairie View Grade School, Elgin
  • Howard B Thomas Grade School
  • Lily Lake Grade School, Maple Park
Questions

Central Community Unit School District 301 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.