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Cicero, Illinois, 8,009 students in 4 schools

J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in J. Sterling Morton, measured against J. Sterling Morton's own big snow morning of 3.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will J. Sterling Morton close tomorrow?

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

J. Sterling Morton’s snow record

34.4inches of snow a winter
3.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
3.1 ina big snow morning in J. Sterling Morton: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 87% of the 788 Illinois districts with a station record.

3.9Nov
3.9Dec
11.5Jan
10.8Feb
2.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17.2 in on February 16, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 61.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.9 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 J. Sterling Morton

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Cicero School District 99Cicero34.4 in1
Berwyn South School District 100Berwyn27.5 in0.5
Oak Park Elementary School District 97Oak Park34.4 in1
Oak Park and River Forest District 200Oak Park34.4 in1
Proviso Township High School District 209Forest Park27.5 in0.5
Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89Melrose Park34.4 in1
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • J Sterling Morton West High Sch, Berwyn
  • J Sterling Morton East High Sch
  • J Sterling Morton Alternative Sch

Other schools

  • J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr
Questions

J. Sterling Morton 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.