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Dearborn, Michigan, 19,621 students in 37 schools

Dearborn City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Dearborn, measured against Dearborn's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Dearborn close tomorrow?

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

How Dearborn calls a snow day

When the call comes

Every effort to decide the night before; sometimes in the early morning hours.

“Therefore, we make every effort to make a decision the night before. However, there may be times when changing conditions or unpredicted weather will make it necessary for us to make a decision in the early morning hours.”
Source

How families hear

By phone call, email, text message, the district website, social media, local TV and radio.

“Send an automated call, email, and/or text to parents and staff.”
Snow days – how they are decided in the district | The First Bell

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The superintendent makes the final decision to close school based on the factors below.”
Board policy

Read from Dearborn’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is dearbornschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Dearborn’s snow record

23.8inches of snow a winter
2.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.7with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Dearborn: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
2.5Nov
4.3Dec
7.6Jan
7.3Feb
1.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 6.7 in on November 12, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 43 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.5 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 Dearborn

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Dearborn Heights School District 7Dearborn Heights23.8 in0.7
Melvindale-North Allen Park School DistrictMelvindale23.8 in0.7
Lincoln Park Public SchoolsLincoln Park40.3 in1.4
Westwood Community SchoolsDearborn Heights23.8 in0.7
Allen Park Public SchoolsAllen Park40.3 in1.4
Ecorse Public School DistrictEcorse40.3 in1.4
The schools

37 schools

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

High

  • Fordson High School
  • Dearborn High School
  • Edsel Ford High School
  • Henry Ford Early CollegeAdvanced Manufacturing
  • Henry Ford Early College
  • Dearborn Magnet High School, Dearborn Heights
  • Dearborn Newcomer College Prep Academy

Middle

  • Bryant Middle School
  • Woodworth Middle School
  • Stout Middle School
  • Unis Middle School
  • Smith Middle School
  • Salina Intermediate 4 8
  • Lowrey Middle School
  • Dearborn STEM Middle School, Dearborn Heights

Elementary

  • Henry Ford Elementary School
  • Miller Elementary School
  • William Ford Elementary School
  • Maples Elementary School
  • Haigh Elementary School
  • Lowrey Elementary School
  • Snow Elementary School
  • Howard Elementary School
  • McCollough Elementary School
  • Salina Elementary P 3
  • River Oaks Elementary School, Dearborn Heights
  • Geer Park Elementary School
  • Charles A Lindbergh Elementary School
  • McDonald Elementary School
  • WhitmoreBolles Elementary School
  • Oakman Elementary School
  • Long Elementary School
  • Nowlin Elementary School
  • Iris Becker Elementary School
  • Duvall Elementary School

Other schools

  • Dearborn Public Schools Virtual K12
  • Howe Trainable Center and Montessori, Dearborn Hts
Questions

Dearborn snow day questions

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