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Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, 3,510 students in 9 schools

Inver Grove Heights Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Inver Grove Heights, measured against Inver Grove Heights's own big snow morning of 6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Inver Grove Heights close tomorrow?

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

Inver Grove Heights’s snow record

57.9inches of snow a winter
5.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.6with 4 in or more
6 ina big snow morning in Inver Grove Heights: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 97% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

3.7Nov
11.2Dec
10.5Jan
15.7Feb
10.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 14 in on December 11, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 97.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.4 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 Inver Grove Heights

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
South St. Paul Public School DistrictSouth Saint Paul50.3 in2.2
South Washington County School DistrictCottage Grove35.9 in2.2
West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-EaganMendota Heights40.5 in1.4
St. Paul Public School DistrictSaint Paul40.5 in1.4
Rosemount-Apple Valley-EaganRosemount57.9 in3.6
Hastings Public School DistrictHastings53.2 in2.7
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • Simley Senior High
  • 199 Online High School
  • Simley Alternative Program

Middle

  • Inver Grove Heights Middle

Elementary

  • Hilltop Elementary
  • Pine Bend Elementary
  • Salem Hills Elementary
  • Atheneum Elementary

Other schools

  • Igh Early Childhood Program
Questions

Inver Grove Heights 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.