Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 Snow Day Predictor

By the district website, phone call, text message, email and social media, and on the district’s own closings page.

5 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “District Emergency Days (if necessary)”.

May 27, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 36.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 12.4 miles away, averaged over 8 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.3 with 4 inches or more.

14.1 inches on February 16, 2021, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 12.4 miles away in 8 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 58.7 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Waukegan through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Waukegan’s own big snow morning: 3.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 12.4 miles away.

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.