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Midland, Michigan, 7,359 students in 13 schools

Midland Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Midland close tomorrow?

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

How Midland calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

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

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Midland’s snow record

30.5inches of snow a winter
4.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.9with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Midland: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
2.7Nov
6.4Dec
8.5Jan
10.2Feb
2.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.9 in on February 22, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 37.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.7 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 Midland

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Bullock Creek School DistrictMidland30.5 in0.9
Freeland Community School DistrictFreeland30.9 in0.7
Meridian Public SchoolsSanford37.7 in1.3
Hemlock Public School DistrictHemlock30.9 in0.7
Saginaw Township Community SchoolsSaginaw30.2 in1.1
Bangor Township SchoolsBay City34.6 in1.4
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • HH Dow High School
  • Midland High School

Middle

  • Jefferson Middle School
  • Northeast Middle School

Elementary

  • Siebert Elementary School
  • Central Park Elementary School
  • Woodcrest Elementary School
  • Adams Elementary School
  • Plymouth Elementary School
  • Chestnut Hill Elementary School

Other schools

  • PrePrimary Center at Carpenter Street School
  • Juvenile Justice Center
  • Post Secondary Transition Program
Questions

Midland snow day questions

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More winter

More for Michigan snow days

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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.