Skip to content
West Allis, Wisconsin, 6,938 students in 16 schools

West Allis School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in West Allis, measured against West Allis's own big snow morning of 4.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will West Allis close tomorrow?

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

How West Allis calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 6:00am.

“In the event that schools are closed or delayed due to weather, you will be notified by 6:00am by text, call, and email.”
Source

How families hear

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

“Local television and radio stations will also be notified. Information will be posted on the district website, school websites, social media, and on school and District telephone messages.”
Severe Weather and School Closing

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 West Allis’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is wawmsd.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

West Allis’s snow record

42inches of snow a winter
3.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.9with 4 in or more
4.3 ina big snow morning in West Allis: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4Nov
6.1Dec
12.6Jan
10.4Feb
7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.5 in on January 13, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 62.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.3 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.

Advertisement
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 West Allis

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Whitnall School DistrictGreenfield37.8 in2
Greenfield School DistrictGreenfield37.8 in2
Milwaukee School DistrictMilwaukee42 in1.9
New Berlin School DistrictNew Berlin37.8 in2
Wauwatosa School DistrictWauwatosa42 in1.9
Greendale School DistrictGreendale37.8 in2
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • Nathan Hale High
  • Central High
  • James E Dottke Project-Based Learning High School
  • Shared Journeys

Middle

  • Frank Lloyd Wright Intermediate
  • West Milwaukee Intermediate, West Milwaukee

Elementary

  • Jefferson Elementary
  • Walker Elementary
  • Irving Elementary
  • Horace Mann Elementary
  • Wilson Elementary
  • Hoover Elementary, New Berlin
  • Mitchell Elementary
  • Franklin Elementary
  • Pershing Elementary, West Milwaukee

Other schools

  • Deeper Learning Virtual Academy
Questions

West Allis snow day questions

Advertisement
More winter

More for Wisconsin snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Wisconsin winter forecastThe season ahead for Wisconsin: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.