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Middleville, Michigan, 3,148 students in 6 schools

Thornapple Kellogg School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Thornapple Kellogg, measured against Thornapple Kellogg's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Thornapple Kellogg close tomorrow?

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

Thornapple Kellogg’s snow record

57.3inches of snow a winter
6.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.7with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Thornapple Kellogg: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 56% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

7.8Nov
12.2Dec
16.8Jan
12.8Feb
5.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.1 in on March 10, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 80.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 11.2 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 Thornapple Kellogg

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Caledonia Community SchoolsCaledonia68.6 in2.3
Wayland Union SchoolsWayland68.6 in2.3
Hastings Area School DistrictHastings57.3 in1.7
Kentwood Public SchoolsGrand Rapids68.6 in2.3
Byron Center Public SchoolsByron Center58.9 in2.1
Kelloggsville Public SchoolsGrand Rapids73.6 in2.6
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Thornapple Kellogg High School

Middle

  • Thornapple Kellogg Middle School

Elementary

  • McFall Elementary School
  • Page Elementary School
  • Lee Elementary School

Other schools

  • TK Early Childhood Center
Questions

Thornapple Kellogg 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.