School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Power Outage
Infrastructure
Total Closure Days
81
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
52
< 1% of state total
Total Closure Days
37
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
39
2% of state total
Total Closure Days
29
2% of state total
Total Closure Days
16
3% of state total
Total Closure Days
19
9% of state total
Total Closure Days
521
56% of state total
Total Closure Days
69
16% of state total
Total Closure Days
52
4% of state total
Total Closure Days
36
3% of state total
Total Closure Days
84
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
62
11% of state total
Total Closure Days
52
7% of state total
Total Closure Days
25
3% of state total
Total Closure Days
51
1% of state total
Total Closure Days
364
38% of state total
Schools Impacted
62
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
43
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
36
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
31
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
19
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
16
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
18
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
519
5% of state total
Schools Impacted
53
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
38
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
33
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
72
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
43
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
38
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
24
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
37
< 1% of state total
Schools Impacted
225
2% of state total
Students Impacted
29,013
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
16,044
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
20,472
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
14,168
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
4,627
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
6,915
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
5,637
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
355,430
5% of state total
Students Impacted
9,587
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
7,728
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
9,264
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
17,231
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
8,732
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
11,067
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
8,400
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
14,084
< 1% of state total
Students Impacted
82,511
1% 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.