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Portage, Michigan, 8,514 students in 14 schools

Portage Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Portage, measured against Portage's own big snow morning of 3.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Portage close tomorrow?

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

How Portage calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Closures beyond what state law allows extend the year past the last day, June 11.

“Cancellations beyond what the law allows will extend the final one-half day of school (and exams) beyond Friday June 11, 2027 if needed to receive full funding from the state.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 26 to Mar 1
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Portage’s snow record

61.4inches of snow a winter
6.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
3.8 ina big snow morning in Portage: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 65% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

12.3Nov
9.5Dec
22.8Jan
10.8Feb
4.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on January 22, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 84.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 14.4 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 Portage

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Kalamazoo Public School DistrictKalamazoo68.4 in2.4
Schoolcraft Community SchoolsSchoolcraft33.8 in0.5
Vicksburg Community SchoolsVicksburg33.8 in0.5
Comstock Public SchoolsKalamazoo68.4 in2.4
Parchment School DistrictKalamazoo68.4 in2.4
Mattawan Consolidated SchoolMattawan61.4 in2
The schools

14 schools

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

High

  • Portage Central High School
  • Portage Northern High School
  • Portage Community High School

Middle

  • Portage Central Middle School
  • Portage West Middle School
  • Portage North Middle School

Elementary

  • Moorsbridge Elementary School
  • 12th Street Elementary
  • Amberly Elementary School
  • Lake Center Elementary School
  • Central Elementary School
  • Haverhill Elementary School
  • Woodland Elementary School
  • Angling Road Elementary School
Questions

Portage 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.