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Bloomington, Minnesota, 10,294 students in 23 schools

Bloomington Public School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Bloomington, measured against Bloomington's own big snow morning of 4.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Bloomington close tomorrow?

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

How Bloomington calls a snow day

When the call comes

No later than 5 a.m.

“After reviewing all information available, the superintendent makes a decision no later than 5 a.m.”
Source

How families hear

By phone call, email, text message, the district website and social media.

“E-learning days will be announced through mass notification email, voice and text, the district website, social media and local broadcast media.”
Emergencies & Closings

Delayed openings

“Due to the complexity of student transportation, the district does not practice two-hour late starts.”

eLearning days

Bloomington has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“In the event of a school closure due to severe winter weather - snow, ice or dangerous wind chills - or a situation where a school building must close, students will continue to learn from home with the district’s E-learning Plan.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 3, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Bloomington’s snow record

53.6inches of snow a winter
5.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.2with 4 in or more
4.9 ina big snow morning in Bloomington: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
13.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 68% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

5.3Nov
11.9Dec
9.4Jan
11.7Feb
8.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.4 in on January 22, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 90.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 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 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 Bloomington

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School DistrictBurnsville57.9 in3.6
Richfield Public School DistrictRichfield53.6 in2.2
Edina Public School DistrictEdina41.9 in2.1
Lakeville Public School DistrictLakeville50 in1.81
St. Louis Park Public School DistrictSaint Louis Park41.9 in2.1
Eden Prairie Public School DistrictEden Prairie55.5 in2.5
The schools

23 schools

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

High

  • Jefferson Senior High
  • Kennedy Senior High
  • Choice Academy
  • Beacon ALP
  • Bloomington Transition Center
  • New Code Academy High School
  • Beacon Alp IS

Middle

  • Olson Middle
  • Oak Grove Middle
  • Valley View Middle
  • New Code Academy Middle School

Elementary

  • Valley View Elementary
  • Olson Elementary
  • Poplar Bridge Elementary
  • Normandale Hills Elementary
  • Oak Grove Elementary
  • Ridgeview Elementary
  • Hillcrest Elementary
  • Indian Mounds Elementary
  • Washburn Elementary
  • Westwood Elementary
  • New Code Academy Elementary

Other schools

  • Bloomington ECSE
Questions

Bloomington 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.