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Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, 2,099 students in 11 schools

Brooklyn Center School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Brooklyn Center close tomorrow?

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

Brooklyn Center’s snow record

49.1inches of snow a winter
4.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
4.4 ina big snow morning in Brooklyn Center: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 54% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

4.3Nov
10.7Dec
8.4Jan
11.1Feb
8.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.8 in on April 15, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 90.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.2 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 Brooklyn Center

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Fridley Public School DistrictFridley36.4 in1.3
Columbia Heights Public School DistrictColumbia Heights36.4 in1.3
Robbinsdale Public School DistrictNew Hope56 in2
Minneapolis Public School DistrictMinneapolis49.1 in2
Spring Lake Park Public SchoolsSpring Lake Park36.4 in1.3
St. Anthony-New Brighton SchoolsSaint Anthony36.4 in1.3
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Brooklyn Center High School
  • Insight School of Minnesota
  • Brooklyn Center Early College Acad
  • Brooklyn Center Independent Study
  • Brooklyn Center Summer School

Middle

  • Brooklyn Center Middle School
  • Brooklyn Center Middle School ALC

Elementary

  • Brooklyn Center Elementary School

Other schools

  • Brooklyn Center ECSE Age 3 - 5
  • Early Childhood Special Education (
  • Brooklyn Center 9 Grade Summer ALC
Questions

Brooklyn Center 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.