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Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, 4,637 students in 12 schools

Wisconsin Rapids School District Snow Day Predictor

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

The next three school mornings

Will Wisconsin Rapids close tomorrow?

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

How Wisconsin Rapids calls a snow day

When the call comes

In no case later than 6:30 a.m., and the evening before when feasible.

“I will make every attempt to make a school closure decision as early as possible, and in no case later than 6:30 a.m. of the morning when school is to be in session.”
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How families hear

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

“Through email, text, and phone alerts generated by our ParentSquare notification system you can sign up for these alerts through your "Family Access" account”
Inclement Weather School Closures - Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools

Remote learning days

Wisconsin Rapids has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“As outlined in policy, it is possible that certain dates will be designated as Remote Learning Days - your school will individually communicate more about expectations for students on these dates when they occur.”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Read from Wisconsin Rapids’s own pages on October 8, 2026.

Ten winters of school mornings

Wisconsin Rapids’s snow record

47.6inches of snow a winter
5.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.3with 4 in or more
4.3 ina big snow morning in Wisconsin Rapids: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 68% of the 412 Wisconsin districts with a station record.

2.9Nov
10.6Dec
9Jan
12Feb
7.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.5 in on March 16, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 81.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1 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 Wisconsin Rapids

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Nekoosa School DistrictNekoosa32.4 in1.7
Stevens Point Area School DistrictStevens Point51.8 in1.9
Marshfield School DistrictMarshfield40.1 in1.3
Tomorrow River School DistrictAmherst61.6 in2.8
Mosinee School DistrictMosinee54.4 in2
Adams-Friendship Area School DistrictFriendship40.9 in1.6
The schools

12 schools

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

High

  • Lincoln High
  • River Cities High

Middle

  • Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle

Elementary

  • Woodside Elementary
  • Howe Elementary
  • Washington Elementary
  • Mead Elementary
  • Grant Elementary
  • THINK Academy-Together Helping INspire Kids, Rudolph
  • Grove Elementary
  • Central Oaks Academy

Other schools

  • Pitsch Early Learning Center
Questions

Wisconsin Rapids 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.