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Snow day: School and college cancellations, delays across Minnesota on Monday

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Ella Behrendt, 6, shovels snow off of her driveway in Wabasso with her sister Cora Behrendt, 8, as another wave of snow began to fall in the area on Sunday. “I wish we had a smaller driveway,” Ella said while shoveling.
Jackson Forderer for MPR News

Updated: March 25, 7:30 a.m.

As a winter storm continues to affect the region, dozens of school districts and colleges across Minnesota and in neighboring states have canceled classes, moved to online learning or opted to start classes two hours late on Monday, March 25.

Here’s a rundown of those delays and cancellations:

School districts

Closed

  • Albany

  • Alexandria

  • Anoka-Hennepin

  • Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City

  • Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa

  • Bertha-Hewitt

  • Big Lake

  • Bloomington Living Hope Lutheran

  • Braham Area

  • Brainerd

  • Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose

  • Chisago Lakes

  • Chokio-Alberta

  • Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley

  • Cook County

  • Deer River

  • Duluth

  • Fergus Falls

  • Floodwood

  • Foley

  • Forest Lake

  • Grand Rapids

  • Greenway

  • Henning

  • Hill City

  • Isle

  • Kimball

  • Lac qui Parle Valley

  • Laporte

  • Little Falls

  • Melrose Area

  • Menahga

  • Milaca

  • Moose Lake

  • Mora

  • Mounds View

  • Mountain Iron-Buhl

  • Nashwauk-Keewatin

  • Nay Ah Shing

  • North Branch

  • North St. Paul - Maplewood - Oakdale

  • Northland-Remer

  • Ogilvie

  • Onamia

  • Osceola (Wis.)

  • Pelican Rapids

  • Pillager

  • Renville County West

  • Rock Ridge

  • Royalton

  • Rush City

  • St. Croix Lutheran Academy

  • Sauk Rapids-Rice

  • Spring Lake Park

  • Superior (Wis.)

  • Upsala

  • Verndale

  • White Bear Lake

  • Yellow Medicine East

    People enjoy heavy snowfall
    Families enjoy sledding amid the falling snow on Sunday at Fuller Park in Minneapolis.
    Kerem Yücel | MPR News

Moving to online/e-learning

  • Aitkin

  • Bemidji

  • Benson

  • Browns Valley

  • Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart

  • Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig

  • Cambridge-Isanti

  • Cass Lake-Bena

  • Chisholm

  • Cromwell-Wright

  • Crosby-Ironton

  • DeLaSalle

  • Detroit Lakes

  • Eden Valley-Watkins

  • Edgerton

  • Frazee-Vergas

  • Hinckley-Finlayson

  • Lake Benton

  • Lake Park-Audubon

  • Lakeview

  • MACCRAY

  • Marshall

  • Mesabi East

  • Minneota

  • Minnewaska Area

  • Montevideo

  • Morris Area

  • Murray County Central

  • Nett Lake

  • New London-Spicer

  • New York Mills

  • Ortonville

  • Park Rapids

  • Parkers Prairie

  • Paynesville Area

  • Perham

  • Prescott (Wis.)

  • Princeton

  • Red Lake

  • Rocori

  • St. Cloud

  • Sauk Centre

  • Staples-Motley

  • Swanville

  • Underwood

  • Wadena-Deer Creek

  • West Central Area

  • Wheaton Area

  • Willow River

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    Matt Versaevel (right) and Will Versaevel, 3, watch their dog Nala catch a snowball in their front yard in Marshall as the snow began to fall more heavily in the late afternoon hours on Sunday.
    Jackson Forderer for MPR News

2-hour delay

  • Benilde-St. Margaret’s

  • Byron

  • Cedar Mountain

  • Chatfield

  • Comfrey

  • Edina

  • Fillmore Central

  • Glenville-Emmons

  • Goodhue

  • Hastings

  • Hudson (Wis.)

  • Kasson-Mantorville

  • Kingsland

  • Lake City

  • Lanesboro

  • LeRoy-Ostrander

  • Lester Prairie

  • Lewiston-Altura

  • Lyle

  • Mabel-Canton

  • Mountain Lake

  • Norwood Young America

  • Pine Island

  • Plainview-Elgin-Millville

  • Red Rock Central

  • River Falls (Wis.)

  • Rushford-Peterson

  • St. Charles

  • St. Thomas Academy

  • Sibley East

  • Totino-Grace

  • Tracy Area

  • Triton

  • Wabasha-Kellogg

  • Wabasso

  • Windom

  • Zumbrota-Mazeppa

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    Eric Bergquist brushes snow off of his car in northeast Minneapolis on Sunday.
    Nicole Neri for MPR News

Colleges

Closed

  • Central Lakes College — Brainerd and Staples campuses

  • Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College

  • Hennepin Technical College — Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie campuses

  • Lake Superior College

  • Minnesota North College — Eveleth, Hibbing, Itasca and Virginia campuses. Rainy River and Vermilion campuses are open

  • Minnesota State Community and Technical College — Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls and Wadena campuses

Reduced/remote operations, or delayed start

  • Anoka Technical College

  • College of St. Scholastica

  • Concordia University St. Paul

  • Dakota County Technical College

  • Dunwoody College of Technology

  • Hamline University

  • Inver Hills Community College

  • Mitchell Hamline School of Law

  • St. Cloud Technical & Community College

  • Southwest Minnesota State University

  • University of Minnesota Duluth

  • University of Minnesota Morris

  • University of Wisconsin-Superior