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Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 10,866 students in 24 schools

Eau Claire Area School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Eau Claire, measured against Eau Claire's own big snow morning of 4.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Eau Claire close tomorrow?

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

How Eau Claire calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website and social media.

“Inclement weather:
  • Please look for announcements about school closings or switches to virtual learning in several ways—through
  • ParentSquare messages, on the
  • ECASD website, on the
  • ECASD Facebook feed, and through local media outlets”
Emergency School Closure Family Communication 2025-26

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Two-Hour Delay: The school day starts two hours later than normally scheduled, communicated as close as possible to 6 am.”

Virtual learning days

Eau Claire has virtual learning days in its winter plan.

“Inclement weather: Please look for announcements about school closings or switches to virtual learning in several ways”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 3, 2027
District calendar

Read from Eau Claire’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is ecasd.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Eau Claire’s snow record

57.3inches of snow a winter
6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.5with 4 in or more
4.5 ina big snow morning in Eau Claire: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
14school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 77% of the 412 Wisconsin districts with a station record.

4.2Nov
14.1Dec
10.3Jan
14.1Feb
7.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12 in on February 24, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 104.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11.2 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 Eau Claire

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Altoona School DistrictAltoona57.3 in2.5
Chippewa Falls Area School DistrictChippewa Falls41.3 in2.3
Elk Mound Area School DistrictElk Mound51.9 in2.2
Bloomer School DistrictBloomer37.9 in2
Menomonie Area School DistrictMenomonie45.3 in2.5
Durand School DistrictDurand39.2 in1.9
The schools

24 schools

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

High

  • North High
  • Memorial High
  • McKinley Charter School
  • Oxford Avenue School

Middle

  • DeLong Middle
  • South Middle
  • Northstar Middle

Elementary

  • Robbins Elementary
  • Sherman Elementary
  • Putnam Heights Elementary
  • Meadowview Elementary
  • Davey Elementary
  • Manz Elementary
  • Locust Lane Elementary
  • Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School
  • Lakeshore Elementary
  • Northwoods Elementary
  • Longfellow Elementary
  • Roosevelt Elementary
  • Flynn Elementary

Other schools

  • Eau Claire Community Sites
  • Prairie Ridge Early Learning School
  • Eau Claire Virtual School
  • Second Avenue School
Questions

Eau Claire snow day questions

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