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Grand Rapids, Michigan, 9,422 students in 16 schools

Kentwood Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Kentwood close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Grand Rapids.
The Kentwood playbook

How Kentwood calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 24, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Kentwood’s snow record

68.6inches of snow a winter
7.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.3with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Kentwood: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 73% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

8.4Nov
17.8Dec
21Jan
13.9Feb
5.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.5 in on December 24, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 110.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 14 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.6 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 Kentwood

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Kelloggsville Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
Godwin Heights Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
Wyoming Public SchoolsWyoming58.9 in2.1
Byron Center Public SchoolsByron Center58.9 in2.1
Godfrey-Lee Public SchoolsWyoming58.9 in2.1
East Grand Rapids Public School DistrictGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • East Kentwood High School
  • Crossroads Alternative High School

Middle

  • Pinewood Middle School
  • Crestwood Middle School
  • Valleywood Middle School

Elementary

  • Discovery Elementary
  • Explorer Elementary, Caledonia
  • Endeavor Elementary
  • Glenwood Elementary
  • Challenger Elementary
  • Brookwood Elementary
  • Meadowlawn Elementary
  • Bowen Elementary
  • Southwood Elementary
  • Townline Elementary

Other schools

  • East Kentwood Freshman Campus
Questions

Kentwood snow day questions

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More winter

More for Michigan snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Michigan winter forecastThe season ahead for Michigan: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.