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Racine, Wisconsin, 15,963 students in 27 schools

Racine School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Racine close tomorrow?

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

How Racine calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“RUSD Website (rusd.org)Email, Phone Call and Text MessageRUSD Facebook PageLocal Media: The Journal Times (www.journaltimes.com), TMJ4 (Channel 4), Fox 6 (Channel 6), WISN 12 (Channel 12), CBS 58 (Channel 58), WRJN (1400 AM), WGTD (91.1 FM)”
School Closing Procedures

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Option #2: Delayed Start - Two Hours”

Making up a lost day

Contingent weather days on Feb 15 and June 11; asterisked dates may be adjusted.

“Please note: All dates are subject to change. *May be adjusted due to inclement weather.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Racine’s snow record

38.1inches of snow a winter
3.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Racine: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.6Nov
4.1Dec
12.3Jan
9.3Feb
5.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on February 16, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 55.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.8 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 Racine

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
South Milwaukee School DistrictSouth Milwaukee31.9 in1.8
Kenosha School DistrictKenosha28.2 in12
Oak Creek-Franklin School DistrictOak Creek41.3 in1.6
Union Grove Union High School DistrictUnion Grove35.3 in1.8
Cudahy School DistrictCudahy41.3 in1.6
Franklin Public School DistrictFranklin37.8 in21
The schools

27 schools

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

High

  • Case High
  • Horlick High
  • Park High
  • Walden III High
  • The REAL Sch, Sturtevant
  • Racine County Jail

Middle

  • Starbuck - An IB World School

Elementary

  • Gifford School
  • Mitchell School
  • Jerstad-Agerholm School
  • Gilmore Fine Arts School
  • Julian Thomas Elementary
  • Johnson Elementary
  • O Brown Elementary
  • Wadewitz Elementary
  • Fratt Elementary
  • Knapp Elementary
  • Jefferson Lighthouse Elementary
  • RUSD Montessori
  • West Ridge Elementary
  • Schulte School, Sturtevant
  • Red Apple Elementary
  • Roosevelt Elementary

Other schools

  • Racine Alternative Learning
  • Bull Early Education Center
  • All District 4 Year Old Kindergarten
  • Racine County Detention Center
Questions

Racine snow day questions

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More winter

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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.