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Marquette, Michigan, 3,227 students in 7 schools

Marquette Area Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Marquette, measured against Marquette's own big snow morning of 3.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Marquette close tomorrow?

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

Marquette’s snow record

84.3inches of snow a winter
8.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3with 4 in or more
3.9 ina big snow morning in Marquette: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
5.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 81% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

8.9Nov
15.7Dec
17.7Jan
21.2Feb
12.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on March 16, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 124.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 14.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.8 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 Marquette

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Negaunee Public SchoolsNegaunee193.2 in7.6
N.I.C.E. Community SchoolsIshpeming150.8 in6.2
Gladstone Area SchoolsGladstone59.9 in3.2
Escanaba Area Public SchoolsEscanaba51.6 in2.9
Breitung Township SchoolsKingsford61.7 in2.6
Houghton-Portage Township SchoolsHoughton189.4 in10.2
The schools

7 schools

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

High

  • Marquette Senior High School
  • Vandenboom Alternative High School

Middle

  • Bothwell Middle School

Elementary

  • Cherry Creek Elementary School
  • Superior Hills Elementary School
  • Sandy Knoll School
  • Graveraet Elementary School
Questions

Marquette 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.