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Lansing, Michigan, 10,194 students in 26 schools

Lansing Public School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Lansing, measured against Lansing's own big snow morning of 2.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Lansing close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Lansing.
The Lansing playbook

How Lansing calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 26, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Closed Monday, January 26, 2026 for inclement weather (district news post the evening before).
    “Due to inclement weather, the Lansing School District will be closed on Monday, January 26th.”
    District notice
  • 2025 to 2026. Closed Friday, February 6, 2026 for inclement weather.
    “Due to inclement weather, the Lansing School District is closed for Friday, February 6.”
    District notice

Read from Lansing’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is lansingschools.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Lansing’s snow record

38.2inches of snow a winter
3.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.6with 4 in or more
2.5 ina big snow morning in Lansing: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.3Nov
6.4Dec
11.4Jan
11.4Feb
4.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.8 in on February 3, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 49 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.6 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 Lansing

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Waverly Community SchoolsLansing44 in1.7
East Lansing School DistrictEast Lansing38.2 in0.6
Holt Public SchoolsHolt38.2 in0.6
DeWitt Public SchoolsDewitt44 in1.7
Okemos Public SchoolsOkemos45.6 in1.2
Haslett Public SchoolsHaslett45.6 in1.2
The schools

26 schools

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

High

  • Everett High School
  • Eastern High School
  • JW Sexton High School
  • Lansing Learning Hub
  • Hill Center

Middle

  • Sheridan Road
  • Mt Hope School

Elementary

  • Gardner International School
  • Pattengill School
  • Dwight Rich School of the Arts
  • Attwood School
  • Post Oak School
  • North School
  • Wexford Montessori Magnet School
  • Gier Park School
  • Willow School
  • Cumberland School
  • Cavanaugh School
  • Forest View School
  • Lewton School
  • Lyons School
  • Forrest G Averill School

Other schools

  • Capital Area K12 Online
  • Beekman Center
  • Lansing Technical High School
  • Ingham County Youth Center
Questions

Lansing 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.