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Clarkston, Michigan, 6,757 students in 14 schools

Clarkston Community School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Clarkston, measured against Clarkston's own big snow morning of 2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Clarkston close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Clarkston.
The Clarkston playbook

How Clarkston calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Read from Clarkston’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is clarkston.k12.mi.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Clarkston’s snow record

32.8inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
2 ina big snow morning in Clarkston: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.9Nov
4.1Dec
10.3Jan
10.6Feb
3.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on March 4, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 43.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.6 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 Clarkston

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Waterford School DistrictWaterford32.8 in1.1
Brandon School DistrictOrtonville36.5 in0.6
Lake Orion Community SchoolsLake Orion31.3 in0.9
Oxford Area Community SchoolsOxford32.8 in1.1
Pontiac City School DistrictPontiac31.3 in0.9
West Bloomfield School DistrictWest Bloomfield32.8 in1.1
The schools

14 schools

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

High

  • Clarkston High School
  • Clarkston Junior High School
  • Renaissance Alternative High School

Middle

  • Sashabaw Middle School

Elementary

  • Bailey Lake Elementary School
  • Springfield Plains Elem School
  • Pine Knob Elementary School
  • Independence Elementary School
  • Clarkston Elementary School
  • North Sashabaw Elementary School
  • Andersonville Elementary School, Davisburg

Other schools

  • Renaissance Virtual School
  • Clarkston Project Search
  • Student Support Services
Questions

Clarkston 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.