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Wausau, Wisconsin, 7,783 students in 20 schools

Wausau School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Wausau, measured against Wausau's own big snow morning of 3.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Wausau close tomorrow?

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

How Wausau calls a snow day

How families hear

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

“School closing or delay information will be sent to you via School Messenger®, the District's electronic notification system, and announced over the District’s social media and website as well as the following radio and television stations:”
Wausau School District Emergency School Closing Plans

Delayed openings

“WAUSAU PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS WILL BE OPEN AT THEIR REGULAR TIME. FIRST STUDENT (YELLOW BUSES) WILL BEGIN THEIR ROUTES ONE (1) OR TWO (2) HOURS LATE. ALL 4K AND EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSES ARE CANCELED.”
Delay schedule

Virtual learning days

Wausau has virtual learning days in its winter plan.

“PLAN FOR VIRTUAL LEARNING DAY Media Announcement - ALL WAUSAU PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL HAVE VIRTUAL LEARNING TODAY”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 3, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Classes moved online for another day after a March 2026 weekend blizzard.
    “Students in the Wausau School District will spend another day learning from home Tuesday as crews and families continue digging out from a historic weekend blizzard.”
    News report

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Wausau’s snow record

67.3inches of snow a winter
5.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.2with 4 in or more
3.9 ina big snow morning in Wausau: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 64% of the 412 Wisconsin districts with a station record.

5Nov
13.8Dec
11.2Jan
15.5Feb
13.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 23.4 in on March 15, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 96.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 11 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 Wausau

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
D.C. Everest Area School DistrictWeston67.4 in2.24
Mosinee School DistrictMosinee54.4 in2
Merrill Area School DistrictMerrill62.4 in3.1
Wittenberg-Birnamwood School DistrictWittenberg49 in3.1
Antigo School DistrictAntigo57.6 in3.1
Stevens Point Area School DistrictStevens Point51.8 in1.9
The schools

20 schools

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

High

  • West High
  • East High
  • Enrich Excel Achieve Learning Academy

Middle

  • John Muir Middle
  • Horace Mann Middle

Elementary

  • G D Jones Elementary
  • Riverview Elementary
  • Thomas Jefferson Elementary
  • Stettin Elementary
  • Maine Elementary
  • John Marshall Elementary
  • South Mountain Elementary
  • Lincoln Elementary
  • Rib Mountain Elementary
  • Hawthorn Hills Elementary
  • Franklin Elementary
  • Grant Elementary
  • Wausau Area Montessori Charter School
  • Hewitt-Texas Elementary

Other schools

  • Wausau Area Virtual Education
Questions

Wausau snow day questions

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