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Grand Haven, Michigan, 5,306 students in 13 schools

Grand Haven Area Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Grand Haven, measured against Grand Haven's own big snow morning of 3.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Grand Haven close tomorrow?

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

Grand Haven’s snow record

46.5inches of snow a winter
5.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Grand Haven: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.2Nov
12.9Dec
17.1Jan
11.2Feb
1.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on January 23, 2025
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 73.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1 mile 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 Grand Haven

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Spring Lake Public SchoolsSpring Lake46.5 in1.4
Fruitport Community SchoolsFruitport68.3 in2.6
Mona Shores Public School DistrictNorton Shores68.3 in2.6
Muskegon City School DistrictMuskegon68.3 in2.6
Allendale Public School DistrictAllendale78.5 in3.1
Orchard View SchoolsMuskegon68.3 in2.6
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Grand Haven High School
  • Central High School
  • Career Development School

Middle

  • Lakeshore Middle School
  • White Pines Intermediate School

Elementary

  • Griffin Elementary School
  • Peach Plains School
  • Lake Hills Elementary School, Spring Lake
  • Rosy Mound School
  • Mary A White School
  • Ferry School
  • Robinson School

Other schools

  • Grand Haven Cyber School
Questions

Grand Haven 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.