Bismarck Public School District 1 Snow Day Predictor

Bismarck announces closings no later than 6 a.m.; sometimes the night before, by its own published protocol.

By email, text message, phone call, the district website, social media and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

2 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “Storm Make-Up Days”.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 26, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Bismarck 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 Bismarck’s own big snow morning: 2.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.5 miles away.

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.