Dickinson Public School District 1 Snow Day Predictor

Dickinson announces closings goal is to communicate by 6:00 a.m. when deciding the morning of, by its own published protocol.

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

1 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “Inclement Weather/Snow Day”.

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

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

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Dickinson 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 Dickinson’s own big snow morning: 4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 21.6 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.