School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Inclement Weather
Natural Disasters & Weather
Total Closure Days
865
17% of state total
Total Closure Days
330
5% of state total
Total Closure Days
1,256
52% of state total
Total Closure Days
94
4% of state total
Total Closure Days
54
5% of state total
Total Closure Days
74
17% of state total
Total Closure Days
95
48% of state total
Total Closure Days
45
4% of state total
Total Closure Days
245
59% of state total
Total Closure Days
679
64% of state total
Total Closure Days
582
60% of state total
Total Closure Days
473
7% of state total
Total Closure Days
272
50% of state total
Total Closure Days
495
67% of state total
Total Closure Days
553
86% of state total
Total Closure Days
106
2% of state total
Total Closure Days
530
56% of state total
Schools Impacted
421
4% of state total
Schools Impacted
189
1% of state total
Schools Impacted
517
4% of state total
Schools Impacted
69
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
23
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
48
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
83
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
36
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
166
1% of state total
Schools Impacted
379
3% of state total
Schools Impacted
324
3% of state total
Schools Impacted
260
2% of state total
Schools Impacted
208
2% of state total
Schools Impacted
311
3% of state total
Schools Impacted
263
3% of state total
Schools Impacted
58
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
367
4% of state total
Students Impacted
132,454
2% of state total
Students Impacted
69,304
1% of state total
Students Impacted
171,433
2% of state total
Students Impacted
14,078
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
4,739
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
13,802
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
29,111
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
3,726
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
67,359
1% of state total
Students Impacted
173,180
2% of state total
Students Impacted
198,510
3% of state total
Students Impacted
56,733
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
40,422
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
78,365
1% of state total
Students Impacted
158,567
2% of state total
Students Impacted
19,218
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
166,898
2% of state total
Overall Closures
Schools in reason
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.