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New Prague, Minnesota, 4,072 students in 9 schools

New Prague Area Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in New Prague, measured against New Prague's own big snow morning of 4.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will New Prague close tomorrow?

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

New Prague’s snow record

54.3inches of snow a winter
5.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.3with 4 in or more
4.8 ina big snow morning in New Prague: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 73% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

6.4Nov
10.4Dec
10.2Jan
11.6Feb
7.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on December 11, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 82.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.1 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 New Prague

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Tri-City United School DistrictMontgomery44.4 in1.9
Jordan Public School DistrictJordan43.3 in1.4
Belle Plaine Public School DistrictBelle Plaine43.3 in1.4
Prior Lake-Savage Area SchoolsPrior Lake50 in1.8
Shakopee Public School DistrictShakopee55.5 in2.5
Lakeville Public School DistrictLakeville50 in1.81
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • New Prague Senior High
  • Compass Learning Center
  • New Prague Credit Recovery
  • New Prague Summer Credit Recovery

Middle

  • New Prague Middle School

Elementary

  • Raven Stream Elementary
  • Eagle View, Elko New Market
  • Falcon Ridge
  • Central Education Campus
Questions

New Prague 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.