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Wayzata Public School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Wayzata, measured against Wayzata's own big snow morning of 3.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Wayzata close tomorrow?

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

How Wayzata calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:30 a.m. whenever possible.

“Such a decision will be made by 5:30 a.m. whenever possible. If no announcement has been made regarding a school delay or closing, then school will proceed”
Source

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“C. A two-hour late start may be implemented if weather conditions are uncertain.”
Delay schedule

eLearning days

Wayzata has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“Bad weather and other emergencies may cause us to close schools. We have emergency learning (E-learning) plans in place.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“A. A decision to close or delay school due to inclement weather conditions will be made by the superintendent or designee.”
Board policy

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Wayzata’s snow record

56inches of snow a winter
4.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
3.9 ina big snow morning in Wayzata: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
16.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 54% of the 322 Minnesota districts with a station record.

5.4Nov
12.3Dec
8.9Jan
11.5Feb
9.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on April 14, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 96.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.7 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 Wayzata

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Hopkins Public School DistrictHopkins41.9 in2.1
Robbinsdale Public School DistrictNew Hope56 in2
St. Louis Park Public School DistrictSaint Louis Park41.9 in2.1
Minnetonka Public School DistrictMinnetonka55.5 in2.5
Orono Public School DistrictLong Lake42.1 in2
Minneapolis Public School DistrictMinneapolis49.1 in2
The schools

21 schools

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

High

  • Wayzata High
  • The Alternative Program (tap)
  • Wayzata Transition School
  • Alternative Programs Summer Session
  • IS the Alternative Program (tap)
  • Wayzata Online

Middle

  • Wayzata Central Middle
  • Wayzata West Middle, Wayzata
  • Wayzata East Middle
  • Central Middle Alternative (cmap)
  • East Middle Alternative (emap)

Elementary

  • North Woods Elementary School
  • Greenwood Elementary
  • Meadow Ridge Elementary School
  • Sunset Hill Elementary
  • Plymouth Creek Elementary
  • Gleason Lake Elementary
  • Kimberly Lane Elementary
  • Birchview Elementary
  • Oakwood Elementary

Other schools

  • Early Childhood Special Education
Questions

Wayzata 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.