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Columbia Heights, Minnesota, 3,420 students in 11 schools

Columbia Heights Public School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Columbia Heights, measured against Columbia Heights's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Columbia Heights close tomorrow?

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

Columbia Heights’s snow record

36.4inches of snow a winter
4.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Columbia Heights: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.5Nov
8.1Dec
7Jan
8.5Feb
5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on January 4, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 60.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.9 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 Columbia Heights

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Fridley Public School DistrictFridley36.4 in1.3
St. Anthony-New Brighton SchoolsSaint Anthony36.4 in1.3
Brooklyn Center School DistrictBrooklyn Center49.1 in2
Spring Lake Park Public SchoolsSpring Lake Park36.4 in1.3
Minneapolis Public School DistrictMinneapolis49.1 in2
Roseville Public School DistrictRoseville49.8 in2
The schools

11 schools

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

High

  • Columbia Heights Senior High
  • Virtual Heights Secondary
  • Columbia Heights Transition Program
  • Anchor

Middle

  • Columbia Academy
  • Columbia Academy Anchor Program

Elementary

  • Valley View Elementary
  • Highland Elementary
  • North Park School for Innovation, Fridley
  • Virtual Heights Elementary

Other schools

  • Early Childhood
Questions

Columbia Heights snow day questions

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More winter

More for Minnesota snow days

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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.