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Godwin Heights Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Godwin Heights close tomorrow?

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

Godwin Heights’s snow record

73.6inches of snow a winter
7.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.6with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Godwin Heights: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 76% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

9.3Nov
18.5Dec
23.9Jan
13.9Feb
6.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.9 in on November 19, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 115.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.8 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 Godwin Heights

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Kelloggsville Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
Wyoming Public SchoolsWyoming58.9 in2.1
Godfrey-Lee Public SchoolsWyoming58.9 in2.1
Kentwood Public SchoolsGrand Rapids68.6 in2.3
Grand Rapids Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
East Grand Rapids Public School DistrictGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
The schools

5 schools

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

High

  • Godwin Heights Senior High School
  • Godwin Heights Learning Center

Middle

  • Godwin Heights Middle School

Elementary

  • West Godwin Elementary School, Wyoming
  • North Godwin Elementary School
Questions

Godwin Heights 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.