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Niles, Michigan, 3,327 students in 11 schools

Niles Community School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Niles, measured against Niles's own big snow morning of 5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Niles close tomorrow?

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

Niles’s snow record

55.9inches of snow a winter
7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3with 4 in or more
5 ina big snow morning in Niles: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

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

6.2Nov
12.8Dec
22Jan
12.5Feb
1.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12 in on January 15, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 111.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.2 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 Niles

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Brandywine Community SchoolsNiles55.9 in3
Buchanan Community School DistrictBuchanan60.9 in1.8
Edwardsburg Public SchoolsEdwardsburg26.5 in0.6
Berrien Springs Public SchoolsBerrien Springs55.9 in3
Dowagiac Union SchoolsDowagiac39.5 in1.6
Lakeshore School DistrictStevensville46.3 in1.8
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Niles Senior High School
  • Niles Cedar Lane
  • WAY Niles
  • Niles Comm Schools Adult Education

Middle

  • Ring Lardner Middle School

Elementary

  • HowardEllis Elementary School
  • Ballard Elementary School
  • Eastside Connections School

Other schools

  • Southside Special Educ School
  • Northside Child Development Center
  • Niles Virtual School
Questions

Niles 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.