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Caledonia, Michigan, 4,628 students in 10 schools

Caledonia Community Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Caledonia, measured against Caledonia's own big snow morning of 3.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Caledonia close tomorrow?

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

Caledonia’s snow record

68.6inches of snow a winter
7.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.3with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Caledonia: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 73% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

8.4Nov
17.8Dec
21Jan
13.9Feb
5.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.5 in on December 24, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 110.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 14 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.3 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 Caledonia

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Thornapple Kellogg School DistrictMiddleville57.3 in1.7
Kentwood Public SchoolsGrand Rapids68.6 in2.3
Forest Hills Public SchoolsGrand Rapids68.7 in2.3
Kelloggsville Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
Godwin Heights Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
Byron Center Public SchoolsByron Center58.9 in2.1
The schools

10 schools

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

High

  • Caledonia High School

Middle

  • Kraft Meadows Intermediate School
  • Duncan Lake Middle School

Elementary

  • Emmons Lake Elementary School
  • Kettle Lake Elementary School, Alto
  • Paris Ridge Elementary
  • Caledonia Elementary School
  • Dutton Elementary School

Other schools

  • Duncan Lake Early Childhood Center
  • Duncan Lake Transitions Program
Questions

Caledonia 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.