Stevens Point Area School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When does Stevens Point call a snow day?

Stevens Point announces closings by 5:30 a.m, by its own published protocol.

Q: How does Stevens Point announce a snow day?

By the district website, phone call, text message and email, and on the district’s own closings page.

Q: Does Stevens Point switch to remote learning on a snow day?

It can. Stevens Point has eLearning days in its winter plan. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

Q: When is the last day of school for Stevens Point?

June 2, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Stevens Point get?

About 51.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 5 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.9 with 4 inches or more.

Q: How does the Stevens Point snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Stevens Point through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Stevens Point’s own big snow morning: 3.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.3 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Stevens Point close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Stevens Point.

The Stevens Point playbook

How Stevens Point calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:30 a.m.

“By 5:30 a.m., a decision will be made based on road conditions, weather forecasts, and the safety of bus travel.”

Source

How families hear

By the district website, phone call, text message and email.

“Phone, text, and email notifications”

School Closing Procedures - Stevens Point Area School District

eLearning days

Stevens Point has eLearning days in its winter plan.

“Option #2 - E-Learning Day: All Stevens Point Area Public Schools are closed for in-person learning, and students will have an E-Learning day. No after-school activities will occur.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day September 1, 2026
Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
Last day June 2, 2027

District calendar

Read from Stevens Point’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is pointschools.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Stevens Point’s snow record

51.8inches of snow a winter

5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.9with 4 in or more

3.8 ina big snow morning in Stevens Point: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

16school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

3.2Nov

11.3Dec

9.1Jan

12.7Feb

10Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 15 in on March 16, 2026
Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 70.5 in
6 in mornings 1 a winter
1 in mornings 9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.3 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.

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 Stevens Point

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Tomorrow River School DistrictAmherst	61.6 in	2.8
Wisconsin Rapids School DistrictWisconsin Rapids	47.6 in	2.3
Nekoosa School DistrictNekoosa	32.4 in	1.7
Mosinee School DistrictMosinee	54.4 in	2
Waupaca School DistrictWaupaca	52.6 in	2.8
D.C. Everest Area School DistrictWeston	67.4 in	2.2	4

The schools

17 schools

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

High

Stevens Point Area Senior High
Point of Discovery School
Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning

Middle

Benjamin Franklin Junior High
P J Jacobs Junior High

Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary, Plover
Washington Elementary
Plover-Whiting Elementary, Plover
Bannach Elementary
McKinley Center
Madison Elementary
McDill Elementary
Jefferson Elementary
Kennedy Elementary, Junction City

Other schools

Point 4 the Future
Preschool Options
Juvenile Detention

Questions

Stevens Point snow day questions

When does Stevens Point call a snow day?

How does Stevens Point announce a snow day?

Does Stevens Point switch to remote learning on a snow day?

When is the last day of school for Stevens Point?

How much snow does Stevens Point get?

How does the Stevens Point snow day predictor work?

How does Wisconsin handle snow days?

More winter

More for Wisconsin snow days

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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.