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Ypsilanti, Michigan, 3,747 students in 12 schools

Ypsilanti Community Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Ypsilanti close tomorrow?

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

Ypsilanti’s snow record

50.7inches of snow a winter
4.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
2.4 ina big snow morning in Ypsilanti: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
6.2Nov
9.6Dec
14.3Jan
12.1Feb
6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.9 in on November 12, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 79.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.6 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 Ypsilanti

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Ann Arbor Public SchoolsAnn Arbor50.7 in1.46
Lincoln Consolidated School DistrictYpsilanti50.7 in1.4
Van Buren Public SchoolsBelleville39.5 in1.4
Saline Area SchoolsSaline28.7 in1
Milan Area SchoolsMilan28.7 in1
Plymouth-Canton Community SchoolsPlymouth26.2 in0.8
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • ACTech High School
  • Acce
  • Ypsilanti STEMM Middle College

Middle

  • Ypsilanti Community Middle School
  • Washtenaw International Middle Academy

Elementary

  • Ypsilanti International Elementary School
  • Estabrook Elementary
  • Erickson Elementary
  • Holmes Elementary
  • YPSI Connected Community School

Other schools

  • Perry Early Learning Center
  • Ford Early Learning Center
Questions

Ypsilanti 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.