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West Bend, Wisconsin, 5,591 students in 12 schools

West Bend School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in West Bend, measured against West Bend's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will West Bend close tomorrow?

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

How West Bend calls a snow day

When the call comes

By 5:30 a.m.

“Every effort is made to make a final determination on school closings or delays by 5:30 a.m.”
Source

How families hear

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

“Phone and email using Skyward Family Access (make sure your contact information in Skyward is up to date)”
School Closures

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“If, after consultation with the bus company, we determine a two-hour delay will be necessary, it will be implemented and families notified. All morning Early Learning Program sessions will be canceled if this occurs.”
Delay schedule

Remote learning days

West Bend has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“We are pleased to have the option to continue instruction through distance learning for all K-12 students on days when our facilities must close.”
Source

Making up a lost day

None; closed days become distance learning days, so no time is made up.

“By using distance learning, school time will not need to be made up at the end of the school year.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 8, 2027
District calendar

Read from West Bend’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is wbsd-schools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

West Bend’s snow record

45.6inches of snow a winter
5.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.9with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in West Bend: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
9.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
4Nov
8.9Dec
13.6Jan
9.6Feb
6.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.2 in on January 13, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 57.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.8 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 West Bend

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Slinger School DistrictSlinger42.2 in1.6
Kewaskum School DistrictKewaskum38 in1.1
Hartford Joint No. 1 School DistrictHartford37.1 in1.6
Cedarburg School DistrictCedarburg37 in1.9
Northern Ozaukee School DistrictFredonia44.3 in1.5
Hartford Union High School DistrictHartford37.1 in1.6
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • West High
  • East High

Middle

  • Badger Middle
  • Silverbrook Intermediate

Elementary

  • Decorah Elementary
  • Fair Park Elementary
  • Green Tree Elementary
  • McLane Elementary
  • Jackson Elementary, Jackson

Other schools

  • West Bend School District 4K
  • Rolf's Early Childhood Center
  • Washington Street School
Questions

West Bend snow day questions

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More winter

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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.