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Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, 1,915 students in 6 schools

Sault Ste. Marie Area Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Sault Ste. Marie, measured against Sault Ste. Marie's own big snow morning of 4.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Sault Ste. Marie close tomorrow?

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

Sault Ste. Marie’s snow record

141.4inches of snow a winter
15.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
5.9with 4 in or more
4.4 ina big snow morning in Sault Ste. Marie: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
10.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 95% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

18.4Nov
37.7Dec
32.6Jan
30.9Feb
13.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 18.6 in on April 1, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 203.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 24.6 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 Sault Ste. Marie

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Cheboygan Area SchoolsCheboygan73.7 in3.3
Public Schools of PetoskeyPetoskey120.5 in5
Boyne City Public SchoolsBoyne City102.1 in5.6
Gaylord Community SchoolsGaylord122.3 in4.7
Alpena Public SchoolsAlpena47.3 in0.8
Elk Rapids SchoolsElk Rapids111.1 in3.6
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Sault Area High School
  • Malcolm High School, Sault S Marie
  • Sault Area Career Center

Middle

  • Sault Area Middle School

Elementary

  • Lincoln School
  • Washington Elementary School
Questions

Sault Ste. Marie 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.