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Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 4,951 students in 8 schools

Oconomowoc Area School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Oconomowoc, measured against Oconomowoc's own big snow morning of 3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Oconomowoc close tomorrow?

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

How Oconomowoc calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“In the event that a closing decision is made, we will send a phone call, text message, and email to families, post the information on the Emergency Information Page of the district website and social media pages, and notify local media sources.”
Weather Related School Closure Information

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Read from Oconomowoc’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is oasd.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Oconomowoc’s snow record

37.2inches of snow a winter
2.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
3 ina big snow morning in Oconomowoc: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.4Nov
5.1Dec
13Jan
6.8Feb
6.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.3 in on January 29, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 49.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Oconomowoc

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Arrowhead Union High School DistrictHartland36.2 in1.5
Kettle Moraine School DistrictWales37.5 in1.3
Pewaukee School DistrictPewaukee37.5 in1.3
Watertown School DistrictWatertown36.7 in1.3
Waukesha School DistrictWaukesha31.5 in1.44
Hamilton School DistrictSussex40.4 in1.1
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Oconomowoc High

Middle

  • Nature Hill Intermediate
  • Silver Lake Intermediate

Elementary

  • Meadow View Elementary
  • Summit Elementary
  • Park Lawn Elementary
  • Ixonia Elementary, Ixonia
  • Greenland Elementary
Questions

Oconomowoc 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.