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Appleton, Wisconsin, 15,230 students in 38 schools

Appleton Area School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Appleton, measured against Appleton's own big snow morning of 3.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Appleton close tomorrow?

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

How Appleton calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 6:00 a.m. or earlier.

“Every effort will be made to decide whether to close schools by 6:00 a.m. or earlier, and then communicate to all families, local news outlets, and post on the district’s website and social media .”
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How families hear

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

“Families can also listen to any local radio station or watch many local television stations for information about school closings.”
School Closure - Appleton Area School District

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“On days when the decision is made to implement a two-hour delay, the following procedures will take place: All morning 4K, Early Childhood, and Title I Preschool classes would be canceled Elementary School Start Time: 10:27 a.m.”
Delay schedule

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

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

Read from Appleton’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is aasd.k12.wi.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Appleton’s snow record

54.6inches of snow a winter
5.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.6with 4 in or more
3.6 ina big snow morning in Appleton: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
10.7school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
3.8Nov
10.8Dec
10.8Jan
12.5Feb
10.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 18.2 in on March 16, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 78.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.9 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 Wisconsin rule

How Wisconsin counts a lost day

Wisconsin requires hours, not days: 437 for kindergarten, 1,050 for grades 1 to 6 and 1,137 for grades 7 to 12.

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

Next door

Districts near Appleton

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Kimberly Area School DistrictCombined Locks54.6 in1.6
Menasha School DistrictMenasha58.3 in1.9
Little Chute Area School DistrictLittle Chute54.6 in1.6
Neenah School DistrictNeenah58.3 in1.9
Kaukauna Area School DistrictKaukauna43.6 in1.4
Freedom Area School DistrictFreedom43.6 in1.4
The schools

38 schools

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

High

  • North High
  • East High
  • West High
  • Renaissance School
  • Tesla Engineering Charter School
  • Appleton Technical Academy
  • Valley New School
  • Fox Cities Leadership Academy
  • Appleton eSchool

Middle

  • Madison Middle
  • Einstein Middle
  • Kaleidoscope Academy
  • Wilson Middle
  • Odyssey-Magellan

Elementary

  • Huntley Elementary
  • Ferber Elementary
  • Houdini Elementary
  • Highlands Elementary
  • Classical School
  • McKinley Elementary
  • Berry Elementary
  • Johnston Elementary
  • Ronald C Dunlap Elementary School
  • Horizons Elementary
  • Badger Elementary
  • Franklin Elementary
  • Richmond Elementary
  • Jefferson Elementary
  • Stephen Foster Elementary Charter
  • Edison Elementary
  • Appleton Public Montessori, Grand Chute
  • Appleton Bilingual School
  • Columbus Elementary
  • Fox River Academy

Other schools

  • Appleton Community 4K
  • Wisconsin Connections Academy
  • Appleview
  • Appleton Cooperative Educational Center
Questions

Appleton 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.