School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Antelope Elementary
Tehama County, CA
Total Closure Days
11
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
5
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
11
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
9
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
3
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
7
Schools Impacted
4
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
5
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
2
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
2
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
3
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
5
Students Impacted
851
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
16
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
711
Students Impacted
17
Students Impacted
54
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
38
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
30
Students Impacted
431
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
714
Overall Closures
Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
|---|
Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 22 | 5 | 4 |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 11 | 2 | 6 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Dangerous Contamination | Student Safety | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Wildfire Closures
Natural Disasters & Weather Closures
Student Safety Closures
Infrastructure Closures
Schools in district
School | Total Closure Days |
|---|
School | Total Closure Days |
|---|---|
| Plum Valley Elementary | 23 |
| Manton Elementary | 7 |
| Mineral Elementary | 6 |
| Antelope Elementary | 5 |
| Berrendos Middle | 4 |
| Antelope Community Day | 3 |
| Lassen-Antelope Volcanic Academy (LAVA) | 2 |
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.