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De Pere, Wisconsin, 4,526 students in 6 schools

De Pere Unified School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in De Pere, measured against De Pere's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will De Pere close tomorrow?

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

How De Pere calls a snow day

How families hear

By text message, local TV and radio.

“How To Receive Emergency/School Closing Text Messages”
Inclement Weather - Unified School District of De Pere

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 27, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 19
  • Last day May 28, 2027
District calendar

Read from De Pere’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is deperek12.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

De Pere’s snow record

52inches of snow a winter
5.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in De Pere: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 55% of the 412 Wisconsin districts with a station record.

3.6Nov
10.2Dec
10.8Jan
12.1Feb
9.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on January 13, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 72.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.9 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 De Pere

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
West De Pere School DistrictDe Pere56.6 in1.8
Ashwaubenon School DistrictGreen Bay56.6 in1.8
Green Bay Area School DistrictGreen Bay50.3 in2.32
Wrightstown Community School DistrictWrightstown43.6 in1.4
Howard-Suamico School DistrictGreen Bay50.3 in2.3
Denmark School DistrictDenmark50 in1.9
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • De Pere High

Middle

  • De Pere Middle
  • Foxview Intermediate

Elementary

  • Heritage Elementary
  • Dickinson Elementary
  • Susie C Altmayer Elementary
Questions

De Pere 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.