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North Chicago, Illinois, 3,483 students in 8 schools

North Chicago School District 187 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in North Chicago, measured against North Chicago's own big snow morning of 3.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will North Chicago close tomorrow?

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

North Chicago’s snow record

36.8inches of snow a winter
3.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
3.8 ina big snow morning in North Chicago: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 96% of the 788 Illinois districts with a station record.

2.9Nov
4.7Dec
12.4Jan
11.2Feb
3.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14.1 in on February 16, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 58.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 8.9 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 North Chicago

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Waukegan Community Unit School District 60Waukegan36.8 in1.35
Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50Gurnee33.4 in0.9
Warren Township High School District 121Gurnee33.4 in0.9
Libertyville Community High School District 128Vernon Hills36.5 in1
Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73Vernon Hills36.5 in1
Grayslake Consolidated Community School District 46Grayslake33.4 in0.9
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • North Chicago Community High Sch

Middle

  • Neal Math Science Academy

Elementary

  • LEARN Chtr Sch 6 N Chicago Campus, Great Lakes
  • Forrestal Elem School, Great Lakes
  • Evelyn Alexander School
  • A J Katzenmaier Academy
  • LEARN 10 Charter School

Other schools

  • Green Bay Early Childhood Center
Questions

North Chicago 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.