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Cedar Falls, Iowa, 5,910 students in 10 schools

Cedar Falls Community School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Cedar Falls, measured against Cedar Falls's own big snow morning of 4.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Cedar Falls close tomorrow?

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

Cedar Falls’s snow record

35.6inches of snow a winter
3.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.5with 4 in or more
4.1 ina big snow morning in Cedar Falls: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
12.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 79% of the 323 Iowa districts with a station record.

3.2Nov
5.8Dec
11.3Jan
8.4Feb
5.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10 in on January 12, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 60 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.1 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 Iowa rule

How Iowa counts a lost day

Iowa requires at least 180 days or 1,080 hours of instruction, as the board chooses. When a board extends the calendar to make up weather closures, it may excuse seniors who have already met graduation requirements.

The Iowa rules in the agency’s own words, and every Iowa district

Next door

Districts near Cedar Falls

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Waterloo Community School DistrictWaterloo34.5 in1.4
Marshalltown Community School DistrictMarshalltown27.2 in0.8
Cedar Rapids Community School DistrictCedar Rapids33.5 in1.83
Linn-Mar Community School DistrictMarion33.5 in1.8
Mason City Community School DistrictMason City35 in1.2
College Community School DistrictCedar Rapids25 in1.3
The schools

10 schools

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

High

  • Cedar Falls High School

Middle

  • Peet Junior High School
  • Holmes Junior High School

Elementary

  • Helen A Hansen Elementary School
  • Southdale Elementary School
  • Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary
  • Orchard Hill Elementary School
  • Lincoln Elementary School
  • Cedar Heights Elementary School
  • North Cedar Elementary School
Questions

Cedar Falls 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.