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Belcourt, North Dakota, 1,561 students in 4 schools

Belcourt Public School District 7 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Belcourt, measured against Belcourt's own big snow morning of 7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Belcourt close tomorrow?

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

How Belcourt calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 17, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 3
  • Last day May 21, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. School canceled Tuesday, December 9, 2025 for inclement weather and icy roads.
    “Due to inclement weather and icy roads, school at TurtleMountain Community Schools has been canceled today, Tuesday, December 9, 2025.”
    District notice
  • 2025 to 2026. School canceled Thursday, December 18, 2025 for icy roads and severe winter weather.
    “Due to icy roads and severe winter weather conditions, TurtleMountain Community Schools is canceled tomorrow, Thursday, December 18, 2025.”
    District notice

Read from Belcourt’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is belcourt.k12.nd.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Belcourt’s snow record

31.2inches of snow a winter
3.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
7 ina big snow morning in Belcourt: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
34.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
2.9Nov
8.3Dec
2.7Jan
3.1Feb
5.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 20 in on October 12, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2021 to 2022, 52 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 North Dakota rule

How North Dakota counts a lost day

North Dakota requires at least 962.5 hours of instruction for elementary students and 1,050 hours for middle and high school students. When weather cancels or cuts short a day, only the lost hours have to be made up, and only if losing them would put the school under its yearly hours.

The North Dakota rules in the agency’s own words, and every North Dakota district

Next door

Districts near Belcourt

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Devils Lake Public School District 1Devils Lake2
Minot Public School District 1Minot1
Grand Forks Public School District 1Grand Forks56.5 in1.92
Jamestown Public School District 1Jamestown46.7 in2.12
Bismarck Public School District 1Bismarck50.2 in1.52
Mandan Public School District 1Mandan50.2 in1.52
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Turtle Mountain Community High School

Middle

  • Turtle Mountain Community Middle School

Elementary

  • Turtle Mountain Community Elementary School

Other schools

  • Tiny Turtles Preschool
Questions

Belcourt 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.