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Sparta, Michigan, 2,413 students in 4 schools

Sparta Area Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Sparta, measured against Sparta's own big snow morning of 3.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Sparta close tomorrow?

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

Sparta’s snow record

73.6inches of snow a winter
7.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.6with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Sparta: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 76% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

9.3Nov
18.5Dec
23.9Jan
13.9Feb
6.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.9 in on November 19, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 115.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 15.5 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 Sparta

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Kent City Community SchoolsKent City73.6 in2.6
Rockford Public SchoolsRockford73.6 in2.6
Comstock Park Public SchoolsComstock Park73.6 in2.6
Kenowa Hills Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
Northview Public School DistrictGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
Cedar Springs Public SchoolsCedar Springs46.8 in1.8
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Sparta Senior High School

Middle

  • Sparta Middle School

Elementary

  • Ridgeview Elementary School
  • Appleview Elementary School
Questions

Sparta 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.