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Troy, Michigan, 12,391 students in 21 schools

Troy School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Troy close tomorrow?

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

How Troy calls a snow day

How families hear

“On days when the temperature and/or wind chill are below -20ºF (20 below zero): Schools will be closed.”
Weather Guidelines (Unsafe Winter Weather Guidelines)

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 3
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
  • Last day June 3, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“On days when the temperature and/or wind chill are below -20ºF (20 below zero): Schools will be closed.”
Board policy

Read from Troy’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is troy.k12.mi.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Troy’s snow record

31.3inches of snow a winter
3.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.9with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Troy: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
2.9Nov
4.9Dec
11.6Jan
8.6Feb
2.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7.3 in on January 18, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 49.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.7 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 Troy

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Clawson City School DistrictClawson31.3 in0.9
Lamphere Public SchoolsMadison Heights31.3 in0.9
Royal Oak City School DistrictRoyal Oak31.3 in0.9
Avondale School DistrictAuburn Hills31.3 in0.9
Birmingham City School DistrictBeverly Hills29.8 in1
Utica Community SchoolsSterling Heights28 in0.7
The schools

21 schools

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

High

  • Troy High School
  • Athens High School
  • Troy College and Career High School

Middle

  • Boulan Park Middle School
  • Larson Middle School
  • Smith Middle School
  • Baker Middle School

Elementary

  • Bemis Elementary School
  • Hamilton Elementary School
  • Schroeder Elementary School
  • Wass Elementary School
  • Barnard Elementary School
  • Leonard Elementary School
  • Wattles Elementary School
  • Morse Elementary School
  • Costello Elementary School
  • Troy Union Elementary School
  • Martell Elementary School
  • Hill Elementary School

Other schools

  • Troy Early Childhood
  • Troy Center for Transition
Questions

Troy 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.