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Westland, Michigan, 9,613 students in 16 schools

Wayne-Westland Community School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Wayne-Westland, measured against Wayne-Westland's own big snow morning of 2.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Wayne-Westland close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Westland.
The Wayne-Westland playbook

How Wayne-Westland calls a snow day

When the call comes

The evening prior when possible, most of the time in the early morning hours.

“When possible, we determine a school closing the evening prior. But most of the time, we have to wait until the early morning hours due to changing weather conditions”
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How families hear

By phone call, email, the district website, social media, local TV and radio.

“Send an automated or Robocall to parents and staff Email parents and staff via the school principal Post on the District website (wwcsd.net) Post on the District’s social media accounts: Facebook and Instagram Post on local news stations including Channel 2, 4, 7 and WJR and WWJ radio”
Inclement Weather Procedures

A snow day is a day off

Wayne-Westland closes rather than going remote.

“Therefore, snow days will remain the same as in years past and be non-instruction days for all WWCS students. If there are a significant number of inclement weather days, that could be revisited.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 9, 2027
District calendar

Read from Wayne-Westland’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is wwcsd.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Wayne-Westland’s snow record

26.2inches of snow a winter
2.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.8with 4 in or more
2.4 ina big snow morning in Wayne-Westland: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.2Nov
4.3Dec
7.6Jan
8.2Feb
2.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7.6 in on November 12, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 40.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.2 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 Wayne-Westland

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Garden City School DistrictGarden City26.2 in0.8
Plymouth-Canton Community SchoolsPlymouth26.2 in0.8
Crestwood School DistrictDearborn Hts23.8 in0.7
Livonia Public SchoolsLivonia28.9 in0.6
Westwood Community SchoolsDearborn Heights23.8 in0.7
Romulus Community SchoolsRomulus39.5 in1.4
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • John Glenn High School
  • Wayne Memorial High School, Wayne
  • WayneWestland Innovative Academy, Wayne

Middle

  • Adlai Stevenson Middle School
  • Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Wayne
  • Adams Middle School

Elementary

  • Wildwood Elementary School
  • Alexander Hamilton Elementary School
  • Thomas A Edison Elem School
  • RooseveltMcGrath Elem School, Wayne
  • TaftGalloway Elementary School, Wayne
  • Albert Schweitzer Elementary School
  • David Hicks School, Inkster
  • PD Graham Elementary School
  • Eugene B Elliott Elem School
  • WalkerWinter Elementary School, Canton
Questions

Wayne-Westland snow day questions

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More winter

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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.