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Oak Lawn, Illinois, 5,496 students in 4 schools

Community High School District 218 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Community High School District 218, measured against Community High School District 218's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Community High School District 218 close tomorrow?

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

Community High School District 218’s snow record

27.2inches of snow a winter
3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.8with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Community High School District 218: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

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

2.6Nov
2.7Dec
9.1Jan
10.2Feb
1.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14.5 in on February 16, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 47.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.2 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 Community High School District 218

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Oak Lawn-Hometown School District 123Oak Lawn27.2 in0.8
North Palos School District 117Palos Hills25.9 in1.1
Burbank School District 111Burbank32.4 in0.7
Bremen Community High School District 228Midlothian25.6 in0.5
Consolidated High School District 230Orland Park25.6 in0.5
Orland School District 135Orland Park25.6 in0.5
The schools

4 schools

Every school in Community High School District 218 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • A B Shepard High Sch (Campus), Palos Heights
  • DD Eisenhower High Sch (Campus), Blue Island
  • H L Richards High Sch(Campus)
  • Delta Learning Center, Crestwood
Questions

Community High School District 218 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.