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Lake Zurich, Illinois, 5,703 students in 8 schools

Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lake Zurich, measured against Lake Zurich's own big snow morning of 3.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lake Zurich close tomorrow?

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

Lake Zurich’s snow record

35.5inches of snow a winter
3.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
3.2 ina big snow morning in Lake Zurich: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
7.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

3.7Nov
4.8Dec
11.9Jan
8.1Feb
4.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7.8 in on November 26, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 60.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.9 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 Lake Zurich

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Barrington Community Unit School District 220Barrington25.4 in0.8
Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15Palatine23.9 in0.5
Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96Buffalo Grove36.5 in1
Wauconda Community Unit School District 118Wauconda35.5 in1
Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73Vernon Hills36.5 in1
Township High School District 211Palatine23.9 in0.5
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Lake Zurich High School

Middle

  • Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus, Hawthorn Woods
  • Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus

Elementary

  • May Whitney Elem School
  • Isaac Fox Elementary School
  • Seth Paine Elem School, Hawthorn Woods
  • Spencer Loomis Elementary School, Hawthorn Woods
  • Sarah Adams Elementary School
Questions

Lake Zurich 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.