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Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 8,411 students in 16 schools

Sun Prairie Area School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Sun Prairie, measured against Sun Prairie's own big snow morning of 3.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Sun Prairie close tomorrow?

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

How Sun Prairie calls a snow day

When the call comes

Reviewing the updated forecast by 4:45 a.m. and deciding before 6:00 a.m.

“If no decision has been made by the morning of the possible closure, we are reviewing the updated forecast by 4:45 a.m. and want to make a decision before 6:00 a.m.”
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How families hear

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

“We will also use our electronic messaging system to call, email, and text families about the change in the school schedule.”
School Closings - Sun Prairie Area School District

Delayed openings

“Please note that while you may see other districts use a two-hour delay for bad weather days, our District does not use a two-hour delay.”

3 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “weather days”.

“We have three weather days built into this schedule that we will not need to make up should we have inclement weather or other reasons for closing.”
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Making up a lost day

Days four and five are made up on April 16 and May 21; past five, minutes are added to school days.

“If we have to close more than three days, we will make up days on April 16 and May 21. If we go beyond five days, we will add instructional minutes to school days.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 10, 2027
District calendar

Read from Sun Prairie’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is sunprairieschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Sun Prairie’s snow record

46.4inches of snow a winter
4.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.8with 4 in or more
3.7 ina big snow morning in Sun Prairie: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
9.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
3.8Nov
9.1Dec
14Jan
9.3Feb
6.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.1 in on March 25, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 71.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.5 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 Sun Prairie

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
DeForest Area School DistrictDeForest44.9 in2.1
Monona Grove School DistrictMonona39.5 in1.4
Waunakee Community School DistrictWaunakee46.4 in1.8
Madison Metropolitan School DistrictMadison39.5 in1.4
McFarland School DistrictMcFarland39.5 in1.4
Middleton-Cross Plains School DistrictMiddleton48.3 in2.2
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • Sun Prairie West High
  • Sun Prairie East High
  • Prairie Phoenix Academy

Middle

  • Prairie View Middle
  • Patrick Marsh Middle
  • Central Heights Middle

Elementary

  • Token Springs Elementary
  • Westside Elementary
  • Northside Elementary
  • Royal Oaks Elementary
  • Eastside Elementary
  • Meadow View Elementary
  • Creekside Elementary
  • Horizon Elementary
  • C H Bird Elementary

Other schools

  • Sun Prairie Four Kids
Questions

Sun Prairie 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.