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La Crescent, Minnesota, 1,020 students in 4 schools

La Crescent-Hokah School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in La Crescent-Hokah, measured against La Crescent-Hokah's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will La Crescent-Hokah close tomorrow?

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

La Crescent-Hokah’s snow record

30.7inches of snow a winter
4.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in La Crescent-Hokah: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
7.7school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.5Nov
6.7Dec
8.5Jan
8.1Feb
3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on February 12, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 52.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.5 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.3 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 La Crescent-Hokah

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Houston Public School DistrictHouston41.9 in1.6
Winona Area Public School DistrictWinona36.8 in1.6
Dover-Eyota Public School DistrictEyota46 in1.6
Plainview-Elgin-MillvillePlainview46 in1.6
Stewartville Public School DistrictStewartville48 in2
Rochester Public School DistrictRochester51.5 in2.1
The schools

4 schools

Every school in La Crescent-Hokah follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • La Crescent Senior High

Middle

  • La Crescent-Hokah Middle School

Elementary

  • La Crescent-Hokah Elementary

Other schools

  • Out of State Care and Treatment
Questions

La Crescent-Hokah 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.