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Rock Island, Illinois, 6,209 students in 14 schools

Rock Island-Milan School District 41 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Rock Island-Milan, measured against Rock Island-Milan's own big snow morning of 3.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Rock Island-Milan close tomorrow?

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

Rock Island-Milan’s snow record

24.8inches of snow a winter
2.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
3.9 ina big snow morning in Rock Island-Milan: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
6.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

2.6Nov
4.9Dec
9.5Jan
4Feb
3.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10 in on January 9, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 46.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Rock Island-Milan

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Moline-Coal Valley School District 40Moline24.8 in1
Galesburg Community Unit School District 205Galesburg20.2 in0.6
Sterling Community Unit District 5Sterling26.3 in0.9
Dunlap Community Unit School District 323Dunlap18.8 in0.4
Freeport School District 145Freeport30.6 in1.2
Peoria School District 150Peoria18.8 in0.4
The schools

14 schools

Every school in Rock Island-Milan follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Rock Island High School
  • Thurgood Marshall Learning Ctr

Middle

  • Washington Jr High School
  • Edison Jr High School

Elementary

  • Rock Island Academy
  • Eugene Field Elem School
  • Ricms
  • Denkmann Elem School
  • Frances Willard Elem School
  • Ridgewood Elem School
  • Thomas Jefferson Elem School, Milan
  • Longfellow Elem School
  • Earl H Hanson Elem School

Other schools

  • Horace Mann ELC
Questions

Rock Island-Milan snow day questions

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More winter

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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.