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Anoka, Minnesota, 38,631 students in 51 schools

Anoka-Hennepin Public School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Anoka-Hennepin, measured against Anoka-Hennepin's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Anoka-Hennepin close tomorrow?

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

How Anoka-Hennepin calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

May convert non-school days or extend the school year.

“NOTE: If instructional days are lost due to emergency closings, the district may convert non-school days or extend the school year.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 8, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

Read from Anoka-Hennepin’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is ahschools.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Anoka-Hennepin’s snow record

43.9inches of snow a winter
4.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.6with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Anoka-Hennepin: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.5Nov
9.8Dec
6.9Jan
9.9Feb
6.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11 in on April 15, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 81.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.5 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5 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 Minnesota rule

How Minnesota counts a lost day

Minnesota requires at least 165 days for grades 1 to 11, plus 935 hours for grades 1 to 6 and 1,020 hours for grades 7 to 12.

The Minnesota rules in the agency’s own words, and every Minnesota district

Next door

Districts near Anoka-Hennepin

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Osseo Public School DistrictMaple Grove43.9 in1.6
Spring Lake Park Public SchoolsSpring Lake Park36.4 in1.3
Brooklyn Center School DistrictBrooklyn Center49.1 in2
Elk River School DistrictElk River43.3 in2.8
Fridley Public School DistrictFridley36.4 in1.3
Robbinsdale Public School DistrictNew Hope56 in2
The schools

51 schools, the 40 largest here

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

High

  • Blaine High School, Blaine
  • Champlin Park High School, Champlin
  • Anoka High School
  • Coon Rapids High School, Coon Rapids
  • Andover High School, Andover
  • Anoka-Hennepin Regional High School
  • Anoka-Hennepin Tech High School

Middle

  • Jackson Middle, Champlin
  • Anoka Middle School for the Arts
  • Coon Rapids Middle School, Coon Rapids
  • Oak View Middle, Andover
  • Northdale Middle, Coon Rapids
  • Roosevelt Middle, Blaine

Elementary

  • Andover Elementary, Andover
  • Oxbow Creek Elementary, Champlin
  • Sunrise Elementary, Blaine
  • Ramsey Elementary, Ramsey
  • Rum River Elementary, Andover
  • Champlin/Brooklyn Pk Acd MathEnvSci, Champlin
  • Brookside Elementary, Ramsey
  • Johnsville Elementary, Blaine
  • McKinley Elementary, Ham Lake
  • Jefferson Elementary, Blaine
  • University Avenue Elementary - Aero, Blaine
  • Sand Creek Elementary, Coon Rapids
  • Wilson Elementary
  • Dayton Elementary, Dayton
  • Monroe Elementary School - MSE, Brooklyn Park
  • Adams Elementary, Coon Rapids
  • Eisenhower Elementary, Coon Rapids
  • Mississippi Elementary, Coon Rapids
  • Crooked Lake Elementary, Andover
  • Evergreen Park Elementary-STEM, Brooklyn Center
  • Hoover Elementary BioMed Sci Egng, Coon Rapids
  • Morris Bye Elementary, Coon Rapids
  • Lincoln Elementary School for Arts
  • Madison Elementary, Blaine
  • Hamilton Elementary, Coon Rapids

Other schools

  • Early Childhood/Special Education
  • River Trail Learning Ctr @ Lo Jacob, Coon Rapids
Questions

Anoka-Hennepin 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.