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Plainwell, Michigan, 2,647 students in 6 schools

Plainwell Community Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Plainwell close tomorrow?

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

Plainwell’s snow record

68.4inches of snow a winter
6.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.4with 4 in or more
3.9 ina big snow morning in Plainwell: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 74% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

10.4Nov
15.5Dec
21.6Jan
14Feb
5.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.5 in on November 19, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 89.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Plainwell

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Otsego Public SchoolsOtsego68.4 in2.4
Parchment School DistrictKalamazoo68.4 in2.4
Comstock Public SchoolsKalamazoo68.4 in2.4
Allegan Public SchoolsAllegan68.4 in2.4
Kalamazoo Public School DistrictKalamazoo68.4 in2.4
Gull Lake Community SchoolsRichland67 in2
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Plainwell High School
  • Renaissance High School

Middle

  • Plainwell Middle School

Elementary

  • Starr Elementary School
  • Gilkey Elementary School
  • Cooper Elementary School, Kalamazoo
Questions

Plainwell 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.