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Combined Locks, Wisconsin, 5,058 students in 9 schools

Kimberly Area School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Kimberly close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Combined Locks.
The Kimberly playbook

How Kimberly calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

Friday June 4, 2027 is the marked snow day make-up.

“Snow Day Make-up”
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 Kimberly’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is kimberly.k12.wi.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Kimberly’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 Kimberly: 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 5.7 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 Kimberly

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Little Chute Area School DistrictLittle Chute54.6 in1.6
Kaukauna Area School DistrictKaukauna43.6 in1.4
Appleton Area School DistrictAppleton54.6 in1.6
Menasha School DistrictMenasha58.3 in1.9
Freedom Area School DistrictFreedom43.6 in1.4
Neenah School DistrictNeenah58.3 in1.9
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • Kimberly High, Kimberly

Middle

  • Gerritts Middle, Kimberly
  • Mapleview Intermediate, Kimberly
  • Woodland Intermediate, Appleton

Elementary

  • Sunrise Elementary, Appleton
  • Woodland School, Appleton
  • Westside Elementary, Kimberly
  • Janssen Elementary

Other schools

  • 4K Center for Literacy, Kimberly
Questions

Kimberly 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.