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Highland, Michigan, 7,849 students in 16 schools

Huron Valley Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Huron Valley, measured against Huron Valley's own big snow morning of 2.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Huron Valley close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Highland.
The Huron Valley playbook

How Huron Valley calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:30 a.m.

“On days when inclement weather occurs, we try our best to make the call by 5:30 a.m. to provide as much time as possible for families to be notified so that arrangements may be made for childcare, etc.”
Source

How families hear

By local TV, email, the district website and social media.

“Once the decision is made to cancel school we inform parents via the Detroit media, email, Skylert, our website and Facebook page.”
School Closing Information | Huron Valley Schools

Making up a lost day

Hours beyond the 30 the state provides must be made up.

“The state provides up to 30 hours for inclement weather/emergency closings. We are required to make up any additional hours.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“We will close school if the air temperature with wind chill is expected to be at or below -25 degrees Fahrenheit while students are waiting for the bus or walking to school.”
Board policy

Read from Huron Valley’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is hvs.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Huron Valley’s snow record

50.8inches of snow a winter
5.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.1with 4 in or more
2.8 ina big snow morning in Huron Valley: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
6.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 68% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

5.2Nov
10.5Dec
14.4Jan
12.6Feb
6.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11 in on December 11, 2016
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 87.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 9.3 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 Huron Valley

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Hartland Consolidated SchoolsHartland34.3 in0.6
Walled Lake Consolidated SchoolsWalled Lake29.8 in1
Brighton Area SchoolsBrighton28.6 in1.1
South Lyon Community SchoolsSouth Lyon31.1 in0.9
West Bloomfield School DistrictWest Bloomfield32.8 in1.1
Novi Community School DistrictNovi28.9 in0.6
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • Milford High School
  • Lakeland High School, White Lake
  • Harbor High School, White Lake
  • Huron Valley Adult Education, White Lake

Middle

  • Muir Middle School, Milford
  • Oak Valley Middle School, Commerce Township
  • White Lake Middle School, White Lake

Elementary

  • Country Oaks Elementary School, Commerce Township
  • Heritage Elementary School
  • Lakewood Elementary School, White Lake
  • Spring Mills Elementary School
  • Oxbow Elementary School, White Lake
  • Kurtz Elementary School, Milford
  • Johnson Elementary School, Milford
  • Highland Elementary School

Other schools

  • Apollo Center
Questions

Huron Valley 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.