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Round Lake, Illinois, 6,190 students in 11 schools

Round Lake Community Unit School District 116 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Round Lake, measured against Round Lake's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Round Lake close tomorrow?

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

Round Lake’s snow record

33.4inches of snow a winter
3.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.9with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Round Lake: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 79% of the 788 Illinois districts with a station record.

5.4Nov
3.6Dec
10.7Jan
8.5Feb
2.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.3 in on November 30, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 56.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.4 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 Round Lake

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Grayslake Consolidated Community School District 46Grayslake33.4 in0.9
Warren Township High School District 121Gurnee33.4 in0.9
Wauconda Community Unit School District 118Wauconda35.5 in1
Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50Gurnee33.4 in0.9
McHenry Community Consolidated School District 15Mchenry24.3 in1
Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73Vernon Hills36.5 in1
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Round Lake Senior High School
  • Round Lake Transition Center

Middle

  • Round Lake Middle School, Round Lake Heights
  • Magee Middle School

Elementary

  • Raymond Ellis Elem School, Round Lake Beach
  • Indian Hill Elem School, Round Lake Heights
  • W J Murphy Elem School, Round Lake Park
  • Round Lake Beach Elem School, Round Lake Beach
  • Pleviak Elem School, Lake Villa
  • Village Elementary School

Other schools

  • Early Childhood Facility
Questions

Round Lake 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.