School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Infrastructure
Total Closure Days
113
2% of state total
Total Closure Days
80
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
240
9% of state total
Total Closure Days
122
6% of state total
Total Closure Days
70
6% of state total
Total Closure Days
55
12% of state total
Total Closure Days
34
17% of state total
Total Closure Days
530
57% of state total
Total Closure Days
85
20% of state total
Total Closure Days
69
6% of state total
Total Closure Days
51
5% of state total
Total Closure Days
115
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
105
19% of state total
Total Closure Days
97
13% of state total
Total Closure Days
57
8% of state total
Total Closure Days
74
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
395
42% of state total
Schools Impacted
86
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
63
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
68
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
61
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
36
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
47
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
30
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
527
5% of state total
Schools Impacted
67
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
46
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
45
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
86
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
68
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
64
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
45
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
53
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
239
2% of state total
Students Impacted
44,394
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
26,801
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
30,084
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
22,196
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
11,414
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
16,431
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
8,361
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
360,750
5% of state total
Students Impacted
13,493
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
9,352
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
14,928
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
25,835
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
18,031
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
20,428
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
14,553
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
23,152
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
86,276
1% of state total
Infrastructure Closures
Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
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Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
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Power Outage | Infrastructure | 1,589 | 1,079 | 1 |
Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 645 | 276 | 2 |
Gas Leak | Infrastructure | 52 | 35 | 1 |
Animal & Insect Threat | Infrastructure | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Schools in category
School | District | Total Closure Days |
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Methodology and Data
In California, school districts that close schools for emergencies can request that the California Department of Education protect their attendance-based funding. Such requests, known as Form J-13A waivers, must list the closed schools, dates, number of lost days and reasons for the emergency. Using the California Public Records Act, CalMatters compiled the 17 years of these requests on file with the department to build a school-site level database of reported school closures.
Closure days were defined as one lost day of instruction at a single public school site. School that did not report any closures or where enrollment could not be verified were omitted.
School districts self-report their closure information to state education authorities, who hand-enter it into a database for internal use. For this reason, it may contain errors and inconsistencies. Because the state does not specify a deadline for requesting J-13A waivers, some districts submitted multiple school closure incidents on a single request, or submitted multiple requests for a single incident. In these cases, CalMatters manually cleaned and sorted the data.
If you have any questions about the database, discover any errors or have interest in downloading the data, please email ricardo@calmatters.org. Read more about our data in our full methodology.