School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Julian Union High
San Diego County, CA
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
6
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
24
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
8
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
24
Total Closure Days
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
2
Schools Impacted
2
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
2
Schools Impacted
2
Schools Impacted
4
Schools Impacted
4
Schools Impacted
4
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
3
Schools Impacted
0
Students Impacted
106
Students Impacted
130
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
177
Students Impacted
175
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
170
Students Impacted
182
Students Impacted
2,234
Students Impacted
2,430
Students Impacted
3,762
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
1,702
Students Impacted
0
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 | 32 | 4 | 8 |
| 2007 Southern California Fires | Wildfires | 24 | 4 | 6 |
| 2003 Southern California Fires | Wildfires | 24 | 3 | 8 |
| 2017 Southern California Fires | Wildfires | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Wildfire Closures
Natural Disasters & Weather Closures
Schools in district
School | Total Closure Days |
|---|
School | Total Closure Days |
|---|---|
| Julian High | 33 |
| Redding (Ray) High (Continuation) | 23 |
| Eagles Peak Charter | 17 |
| Summit High Community Day | 9 |
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.