School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Other Reasons
Other
Total Closure Days
12
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
16
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
93
3% of state total
Total Closure Days
126
6% of state total
Total Closure Days
23
2% of state total
Total Closure Days
2
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
4
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
1
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
5
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
26
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
14
2% of state total
Total Closure Days
12
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
8
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
2
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
6
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
5
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
7
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
2
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
0
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
1
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
4
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
1
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
2
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
16
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
14
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
11
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
0
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
0
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
1
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
1,133
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
653
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
248
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
363
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
496
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
415
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
0
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
12
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
283
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
27
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
192
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
3,003
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
1,944
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
1,195
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
0
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
0
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
738
< 1% of state total
Overall Closures
Schools in reason
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.