School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Student Safety
Total Closure Days
15
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
108
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
58
2% of state total
Total Closure Days
1,077
55% of state total
Total Closure Days
43
4% of state total
Total Closure Days
5
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
38
19% of state total
Total Closure Days
51
5% of state total
Total Closure Days
4
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
12
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
92
9% of state total
Total Closure Days
6
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
112
20% of state total
Total Closure Days
2
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
12
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
20
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
5
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
13
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
77
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
44
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
1,051
10% of state total
Schools Impacted
24
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
4
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
28
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
23
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
4
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
7
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
40
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
6
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
108
1% of state total
Schools Impacted
2
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
10
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
18
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
5
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
9,048
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
44,351
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
26,327
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
659,576
10% of state total
Students Impacted
11,216
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
4,241
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
8,761
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
21,800
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
2,276
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
3,792
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
35,060
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
5,402
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
49,850
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
1,078
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
6,451
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
12,750
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
990
< 1% of state total
Student Safety 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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Threat of Violence | Student Safety | 1,213 | 1,174 | 1 |
Outbreak & Quarantine | Student Safety | 164 | 72 | 2 |
Police Activity | Student Safety | 158 | 147 | 1 |
Fires & Explosions | Student Safety | 54 | 31 | 2 |
Other Safety Risks | Student Safety | 54 | 22 | 2 |
Dangerous Contamination | Student Safety | 17 | 15 | 1 |
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.