Stillwater Area Public School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How many snow days does Stillwater have built in?

2 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “Snow Days”.

Q: Does Stillwater switch to remote learning on a snow day?

It can. Stillwater has eLearning days in its winter plan. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

Q: When is the last day of school for Stillwater?

May 21, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Stillwater get?

About 53.1 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.2 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 4.7 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 2.2 with 4 inches or more.

Q: How does the Stillwater snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Stillwater through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Stillwater’s own big snow morning: 5.3 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.2 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Stillwater close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Stillwater.

The Stillwater playbook

How Stillwater calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“Automated phone calls, emails, and text messages (for those who have opted in)”

Emergency Management

2 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Snow Days”.

“Each school year, the district designates two traditional Snow Days, during which there is no in-person or online instruction.”

Source

eLearning days

Stillwater has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“Additional weather-related school closures will be conducted as E-Learning Days in accordance with district procedures.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 17, 2026
Last day May 21, 2027

District calendar

The board policy

“Each year, the district will have two official “Snow Days” in which there is no school in-person or online. After that, any weather-related cancellation results in an E-Learning Day.”

Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Stillwater’s snow record

53.1inches of snow a winter

4.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

2.2with 4 in or more

5.3 ina big snow morning in Stillwater: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 68% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

5.1Nov

11.5Dec

9.4Jan

11.1Feb

8.7Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 13.8 in on February 23, 2023
Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 101.1 in
6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
1 in mornings 8.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.2 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.

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 Stillwater

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Mahtomedi Public School DistrictMahtomedi	50 in	1.9
North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School DistrictNorth Saint Paul	50 in	1.9
White Bear Lake School DistrictWhite Bear Lake	50 in	1.9
South St. Paul Public School DistrictSouth Saint Paul	50.3 in	2.2
Mounds View Public School DistrictShoreview	33.8 in	1.7
South Washington County School DistrictCottage Grove	35.9 in	2.2

The schools

16 schools

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

High

Stillwater Area High School
St Croix Valley Area Learning Cntr.
Bridge Transition Program
Wcjc

Middle

Oak-Land Middle School, Lake Elmo
Stillwater Middle School

Elementary

Lake Elmo Elementary, Lake Elmo
Brookview Elementary, Woodbury
Rutherford Elementary
Afton-Lakeland Elementary, Lakeland
Stonebridge Elementary
Lily Lake Elementary
Andersen Elementary, Bayport
Gate 4/5

Other schools

Stillwater Special Services-Ecse
Stillwater Dist. Special Services

Questions

Stillwater snow day questions

How does Stillwater announce a snow day?

How many snow days does Stillwater have built in?

Does Stillwater switch to remote learning on a snow day?

When is the last day of school for Stillwater?

How much snow does Stillwater get?

How does the Stillwater snow day predictor work?

How does Minnesota handle snow days?

More winter

More for Minnesota snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Minnesota winter forecastThe season ahead for Minnesota: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.