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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, 8,963 students in 12 schools

Eden Prairie Public School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Eden Prairie close tomorrow?

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

How Eden Prairie calls a snow day

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 Eden Prairie’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is edenpr.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Eden Prairie’s snow record

55.5inches of snow a winter
4.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.5with 4 in or more
4.4 ina big snow morning in Eden Prairie: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
19.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 80% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

5.4Nov
12.5Dec
9.7Jan
11Feb
9.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11 in on January 22, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 102.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.2 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 Eden Prairie

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Minnetonka Public School DistrictMinnetonka55.5 in2.5
Eastern Carver County Public SchoolsChaska55.5 in2.5
Shakopee Public School DistrictShakopee55.5 in2.5
Hopkins Public School DistrictHopkins41.9 in2.1
Edina Public School DistrictEdina41.9 in2.1
St. Louis Park Public School DistrictSaint Louis Park41.9 in2.1
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • Eden Prairie Senior High
  • Eden Prairie Online Secondary
  • Tassel Transition

Middle

  • Central Middle School

Elementary

  • Eagle Heights Spanish Immersion
  • Oak Point Elementary
  • Prairie View Elementary
  • Eden Lake Elementary
  • Forest Hills Elementary
  • Cedar Ridge Elementary
  • Eden Prairie Online Elementary

Other schools

  • Early Childhood Special Ed.
Questions

Eden Prairie 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.