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Waunakee, Wisconsin, 4,410 students in 7 schools

Waunakee Community School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Waunakee close tomorrow?

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

How Waunakee calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 6:00 a.m. that morning.

“we are assessing the situation at 4:45 a.m. and try to make decisions by 6:00 a.m. that morning.”
Source

How families hear

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

“this information is added to our website and posted to local television and radio stations. We will also share information via email and text with parents once a decision is made to close/delay school.”
School Closings/Weather - Waunakee Community School District

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“A two-hour late start simply moves all bus routes and school start times two hours later. On days when a two-hour late start is in place, there will be no AM 4K or Early Childhood programming.”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Possible snow make-up day after the last day, June 10 for K-12 and June 9 for 4K.

“June 10, 2027 K-12 Possible Snow Make-Up Day”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 9, 2027
District calendar

Read from Waunakee’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is waunakee.k12.wi.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Waunakee’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 Waunakee: 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 5.3 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.

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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 Waunakee

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
DeForest Area School DistrictDeForest44.9 in2.1
Middleton-Cross Plains School DistrictMiddleton48.3 in2.2
Madison Metropolitan School DistrictMadison39.5 in1.4
Monona Grove School DistrictMonona39.5 in1.4
Lodi School DistrictLodi34.6 in1.7
Sun Prairie Area School DistrictSun Prairie46.4 in1.83
The schools

7 schools

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

High

  • Waunakee High

Middle

  • Waunakee Middle
  • Waunakee Intermediate

Elementary

  • Waunakee Heritage Elementary
  • Waunakee Prairie Elementary
  • Arboretum Elementary

Other schools

  • Waunakee Community 4K School
Questions

Waunakee 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.