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Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1,314 students in 6 schools

Benton Harbor Area Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Benton Harbor, measured against Benton Harbor's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Benton Harbor close tomorrow?

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

Benton Harbor’s snow record

46.3inches of snow a winter
6.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.8with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Benton Harbor: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.7school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 58% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

4.4Nov
10.2Dec
20.5Jan
7.6Feb
2.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10 in on February 2, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 92.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.2 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 Michigan rule

How Michigan counts a lost day

Michigan requires at least 180 days and 1,098 hours of pupil instruction. The first 6 days (or the same hours) lost to conditions outside the district's control, such as severe storms, are counted as instruction; up to 3 more can be approved by the State Superintendent.

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

Next door

Districts near Benton Harbor

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
St. Joseph Public SchoolsSaint Joseph46.3 in1.8
Lakeshore School DistrictStevensville46.3 in1.8
Coloma Community SchoolsColoma46.3 in1.8
Watervliet School DistrictWatervliet46.3 in1.8
Berrien Springs Public SchoolsBerrien Springs55.9 in3
Hartford Public School DistrictHartford46.3 in1.8
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Benton Harbor High School

Middle

  • Fair Plain Middle School

Elementary

  • Martin Luther King Jr Elementary
  • Fair Plain East Elementary

Other schools

  • Discovery Enrichment Center
  • Career and Alternative Pathways to Education Center
Questions

Benton Harbor 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.