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Elk Rapids, Michigan, 1,239 students in 5 schools

Elk Rapids Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Elk Rapids close tomorrow?

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

Elk Rapids’s snow record

111.1inches of snow a winter
10.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.6with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Elk Rapids: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 88% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

12.9Nov
23.2Dec
30.7Jan
24.9Feb
15.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13.3 in on March 16, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 152.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 20.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 12.3 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 Elk Rapids

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Traverse City Area Public SchoolsTraverse City111.1 in3.65
Kalkaska Public SchoolsKalkaska129.2 in5.5
Kingsley Area SchoolsKingsley84.3 in2.2
Boyne City Public SchoolsBoyne City102.1 in5.6
Crawford AuSable SchoolsGrayling81.2 in3.8
Gaylord Community SchoolsGaylord122.3 in4.7
The schools

5 schools

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

High

  • Elk Rapids High School
  • Sunrise Academy

Middle

  • Cherryland Middle School

Elementary

  • Lakeland Elementary School
  • Mill Creek Elementary School, Williamsburg
Questions

Elk Rapids 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.