Hopkins Public School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When does Hopkins call a snow day?

Hopkins announces closings that evening or early the next morning, at least two hours before the start of the school day, by its own published protocol.

Q: Does Hopkins switch to remote learning on a snow day?

It can. Hopkins has eLearning days in its winter plan. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

Q: How long is a delayed start in Hopkins?

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

Q: When is the last day of school for Hopkins?

June 9, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How does the Hopkins snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Hopkins through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Hopkins’s own big snow morning: 4.6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.2 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Hopkins close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Hopkins.

The Hopkins playbook

How Hopkins calls a snow day

When the call comes

That evening or early the next morning, at least two hours before the start of the school day.

“A final decision will be communicated that evening or early the next morning, at least two hours before the start of the school day.”

Source

How families hear

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

“Email, text, and phone call through our parent notification system—Please ensure your contact information is current in Infinite Campus.”

Inclement Weather - Hopkins Public Schools

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Buses will run on a two-hour delay (e.g., a 7:15 a.m. pick-up becomes 9:15 a.m.).”

Delay schedule

eLearning days

Hopkins has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“eLearning days also allow the district to manage weather-related closures without extending the school year.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 31, 2026
Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
Last day June 9, 2027

District calendar

Read from Hopkins’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is hopkinsschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Hopkins’s snow record

41.9inches of snow a winter

3.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

2.1with 4 in or more

4.6 ina big snow morning in Hopkins: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 63% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

3.3Nov

9.2Dec

8.1Jan

9Feb

7.1Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 9.5 in on January 4, 2023
Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 72.2 in
6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
1 in mornings 7.3 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.

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 Hopkins

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
St. Louis Park Public School DistrictSaint Louis Park	41.9 in	2.1
Edina Public School DistrictEdina	41.9 in	2.1
Wayzata Public School DistrictPlymouth	56 in	2
Minnetonka Public School DistrictMinnetonka	55.5 in	2.5
Eden Prairie Public School DistrictEden Prairie	55.5 in	2.5
Robbinsdale Public School DistrictNew Hope	56 in	2

The schools

15 schools

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

High

Hopkins Senior High, Minnetonka
VirtualEDU Secondary, Golden Valley
Transition Plus, Saint Louis Park

Middle

Hopkins North Middle School, Minnetonka
Hopkins West Middle School, Minnetonka

Elementary

Meadowbrook Elementary, Golden Valley
L.h. Tanglen Elementary, Minnetonka
Alice Smith Elementary
Eisenhower Elementary
Glen Lake Elementary, Minnetonka
Gatewood Elementary, Minnetonka
Xinxing Academy
VirtualEDU ELementary, Golden Valley

Other schools

Harley Hopkins Family Center
Senops

Questions

Hopkins snow day questions

When does Hopkins call a snow day?

How does Hopkins announce a snow day?

Does Hopkins switch to remote learning on a snow day?

How long is a delayed start in Hopkins?

When is the last day of school for Hopkins?

How does the Hopkins snow day predictor work?

How does Minnesota handle snow days?

More winter

More for Minnesota snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Minnesota winter forecastThe season ahead for Minnesota: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.