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Minnetonka, Minnesota, 11,356 students in 13 schools

Minnetonka Public School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Minnetonka close tomorrow?

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

How Minnetonka calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“Radio station WCCO-AM and television channels WCCO-TV, KSTP-TV, FOX9-TV, and KARE 11-TV will run our announcements. We will also post information on the District's website.”
Emergency Closing Procedures - Minnetonka Public Schools

Remote learning days

Minnetonka has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“If there are additional inclement weather days beyond the first two, starting with the third day, teachers at all levels will provide asynchronous or synchronous instruction.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 8, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“2.0 The Superintendent, or designee, may close schools or shorten the school day when, in his best judgment, this is deemed advisable for welfare of the pupils.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Minnetonka’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 Minnetonka: 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 4.5 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 Minnetonka

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Eden Prairie Public School DistrictEden Prairie55.5 in2.5
Hopkins Public School DistrictHopkins41.9 in2.1
Eastern Carver County Public SchoolsChaska55.5 in2.5
Wayzata Public School DistrictPlymouth56 in2
Orono Public School DistrictLong Lake42.1 in2
St. Louis Park Public School DistrictSaint Louis Park41.9 in2.1
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Minnetonka Senior High
  • Tonka Online
  • Shorewood Education Center, Shorewood

Middle

  • Minnetonka East Middle
  • Minnetonka West Middle, Excelsior

Elementary

  • Scenic Heights Elementary
  • Minnewashta Elementary, Excelsior
  • Groveland Elementary
  • Clear Springs Elementary
  • Excelsior Elementary, Excelsior
  • Deephaven Elementary, Wayzata
  • Tonka Online K-5

Other schools

  • Deephaven Education Center, Excelsior
Questions

Minnetonka 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.