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Shoreview, Minnesota, 11,632 students in 27 schools

Mounds View Public School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Mounds View close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Shoreview.
The Mounds View playbook

How Mounds View calls a snow day

When the call comes

No later than 5:30 a.m. on the day, possibly the evening before.

“When school is canceled, the District will notify parents by no later than 5:30 a.m. on the day of the late start or cancellation (possibly the evening before)”
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How families hear

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

“All families will receive a text, voicemail and e-mail message within 20 minutes of a decision to close school.”
Winter weather reminders - Mounds View Public Schools

eLearning days

Mounds View has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“Unless otherwise notified, families should not expect instruction to occur on a school day cancelled for severe weather. Should an e-learning day be announced, families will receive an email with specific information from their child's teachers.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 8, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from Mounds View’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is mvpschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Mounds View’s snow record

33.8inches of snow a winter
4.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.7with 4 in or more
6 ina big snow morning in Mounds View: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.5Nov
6.4Dec
6.4Jan
11.2Feb
4.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9 in on February 25, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 62 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.9 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 Mounds View

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Roseville Public School DistrictRoseville49.8 in2
Centennial Public School DistrictCircle Pines33.8 in1.7
St. Anthony-New Brighton SchoolsSaint Anthony36.4 in1.3
Columbia Heights Public School DistrictColumbia Heights36.4 in1.3
Spring Lake Park Public SchoolsSpring Lake Park36.4 in1.3
Fridley Public School DistrictFridley36.4 in1.3
The schools

27 schools

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

High

  • Mounds View Senior High, Arden Hills
  • Irondale Senior High, New Brighton
  • Mounds View Alc, Mounds View
  • Career and Life Transition Program, Roseville
  • REACH Academy
  • Mounds View Adult Education, Mounds View
  • Nets
  • High School Summer Program, Mounds View
  • Laurentian Environmental Center, Britt
  • Mounds View Credit Plus, Mounds View

Middle

  • Chippewa Middle School, North Oaks
  • Highview Middle School, New Brighton
  • Edgewood Middle School, Mounds View

Elementary

  • Turtle Lake Elementary
  • Island Lake Elementary
  • Bel Air Elementary, New Brighton
  • Valentine Hills Elementary, Arden Hills
  • Pinewood Elementary, Mounds View
  • Sunnyside Elementary, New Brighton
  • Snail Lake Kindergarten Center
  • Mounds View Bridges Program

Other schools

  • Pike Lake Kindergarten Center, New Brighton
  • Ecse Program, New Brighton
  • Birth To Two Ecse, New Brighton
  • Speech Program - Sp Ed Program, New Brighton
  • Children's MN Roseville PHP, Roseville
  • Shared Time Program
Questions

Mounds View 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.