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West Bloomfield, Michigan, 4,830 students in 11 schools

West Bloomfield School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in West Bloomfield, measured against West Bloomfield's own big snow morning of 2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will West Bloomfield close tomorrow?

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

West Bloomfield’s snow record

32.8inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
2 ina big snow morning in West Bloomfield: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.9Nov
4.1Dec
10.3Jan
10.6Feb
3.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on March 4, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 43.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7 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 West Bloomfield

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Waterford School DistrictWaterford32.8 in1.1
Walled Lake Consolidated SchoolsWalled Lake29.8 in1
Pontiac City School DistrictPontiac31.3 in0.9
Bloomfield Hills School DistrictBloomfield Hills29.8 in1
Farmington Public School DistrictFarmington29.8 in16
Avondale School DistrictAuburn Hills31.3 in0.9
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • West Bloomfield High School
  • Oakland Early College, Farmington Hills
  • The Laker Opportunity Center, W Bloomfield

Middle

  • West Bloomfield Middle School, W Bloomfield

Elementary

  • Doherty Elementary School
  • Sheiko Elementary School
  • Gretchko Elementary School
  • Roosevelt Elementary School, Orchard Lake
  • Scotch Elementary School

Other schools

  • West Bloomfield Transition Center
  • Project Search
Questions

West Bloomfield 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.