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Austin, Minnesota, 5,146 students in 14 schools

Austin Public School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Austin, measured against Austin's own big snow morning of 4.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Austin close tomorrow?

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

How Austin calls a snow day

When the call comes

Goal is notice before 6:30 a.m.

“Our goal is to provide this notice before 6:30 am.”
Source

How families hear

By the district app, the district website, social media and local TV.

“Parents/guardians will receive a notification via Parent Portal and the closure will be announced via local media, the district website, and social media.”
Remote Learning Days - Austin Public Schools

Remote learning days

Austin has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“At Austin Public Schools, we will use these days in the event of an unscheduled school closure.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 19, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 26, 2027
District calendar

Read from Austin’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is austin.k12.mn.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Austin’s snow record

35.4inches of snow a winter
3.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
4.4 ina big snow morning in Austin: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
16.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
2.2Nov
6.8Dec
7.6Jan
9Feb
6.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.2 in on January 19, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 68.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1 mile 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 Austin

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Albert Lea Public School DistrictAlbert Lea42.1 in1.3
Stewartville Public School DistrictStewartville48 in2
Kasson-Mantorville School DistrictKasson50.3 in1.6
Byron Public School DistrictByron45.1 in1.9
Owatonna Public School DistrictOwatonna44.2 in2.3
Rochester Public School DistrictRochester51.5 in2.1
The schools

14 schools

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

High

  • Austin Senior High
  • Austin Area Learning Center
  • Austin Online Academy
  • Austin Area Learning Cntr. - Summer

Middle

  • Ellis Middle
  • I.j. Holton Intermediate School

Elementary

  • Banfield Elementary
  • Southgate Elementary
  • Neveln Elementary
  • Sumner Elementary

Other schools

  • Woodson Kindergarten Center
  • Austin Community Learning Center
  • New Dominion Academy
  • CLC - Pre-Kindergarten
Questions

Austin 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.