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White Bear Lake, Minnesota, 8,549 students in 25 schools

White Bear Lake School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in White Bear Lake, measured against White Bear Lake's own big snow morning of 3.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will White Bear Lake close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in White Bear Lake.
The White Bear Lake playbook

How White Bear Lake calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“A ParentSquare phone message and email will be sent to all guardians. A text message will be sent to those with texting capabilities.”
School Closings & Weather Alerts

eLearning days

White Bear Lake has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“In the case that an Asynchronous E-Learning day must take place, the day would follow the plan listed below:”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Read from White Bear Lake’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is isd624.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

White Bear Lake’s snow record

50inches of snow a winter
4.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.9with 4 in or more
3.8 ina big snow morning in White Bear Lake: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.6Nov
12.1Dec
7.6Jan
10Feb
9.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.8 in on January 23, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 82.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.3 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 White Bear Lake

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Mahtomedi Public School DistrictMahtomedi50 in1.9
North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School DistrictNorth Saint Paul50 in1.9
Mounds View Public School DistrictShoreview33.8 in1.7
Centennial Public School DistrictCircle Pines33.8 in1.7
Roseville Public School DistrictRoseville49.8 in2
Stillwater Area Public School DistrictStillwater53.1 in2.22
The schools

25 schools

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

High

  • White Bear South Campus Senior
  • White Bear Area Learning Center
  • White Bear Transition Plus Program, Hugo
  • Area Learning Center Summer
  • Aware, Hugo
  • Distance Learning Academy - H
  • White Bear Lake North Campus Alc

Middle

  • Central Middle
  • Sunrise Park Middle
  • Sunrise Park Area Learning Center
  • Central Area Learning Center
  • White Bear Lake Middle OLL

Elementary

  • Matoska International
  • North Star Elementary, Hugo
  • Lincoln Elementary
  • Otter Lake Elementary
  • Oneka Elementary School, Hugo
  • Vadnais Heights Elementary
  • Lakeaires Elementary
  • Willow Lane Elementary
  • Birch Lake Elementary
  • White Bear Lake Elementary Distance

Other schools

  • White Bear North Campus Senior
  • Normandy Park Education Center
  • White Bear Lake District Center
Questions

White Bear Lake snow day questions

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More winter

More for Minnesota snow days

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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.