School Districts

ABC Unified

Anywhere County, CA

Schools

ABC High

ABC Unified

ABC Middle

ABC Unified

Burnt Ranch Elementary

Burnt Ranch Elementary District

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6

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2

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18

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1

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0

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5

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5

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9

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1

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1

Total Closure Days

1

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

1

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1

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0

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1

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0

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1

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

1

Students Impacted

84

Students Impacted

88

Students Impacted

96

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0

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0

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0

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100

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0

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95

Students Impacted

88

Students Impacted

91

Students Impacted

85

Students Impacted

92

Students Impacted

75


Overall Closures

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Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather17117
Power OutageInfrastructure16116
Facilities IssuesInfrastructure15115
Orleans Complex Fires 2017Wildfires111

Wildfire Closures

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Natural Disasters & Weather Closures

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Infrastructure Closures

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Reported Incidents

Nature of Emergency descriptions are included as they were detailed in records from the California Department of Education and may contain grammatical errors and inconsistencies.

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Total Closure Days
Enrollment
Description
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2006-074882/27, 2/28, 3/1, 3/27/07 power outage due to inclement weather
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2005-061913/10/06: severe winter storm, roads icy and snowy, planned late start but roads remained impassable and power outage in surrounding areas.
Power OutageInfrastructure2005-061913/7/06: power outage - no heat and/or water
Facilities IssuesInfrastructure2006-071889/14/06 no water
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2016-17296Inclement weather resulted in a power outage.
Power OutageInfrastructure2003-04192Loss of electricity.
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2016-17296Loss power due to weather
Facilities IssuesInfrastructure2016-171496Mold
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2009-101100No electricity due to fallen trees across power lines following a storm.
Power OutageInfrastructure2002-03175No electricity or phone power. Without electricity, the school had no water or heat.
Orleans Complex Fires 2017Wildfires2017-18188Poor air quality from Helena Fire
Power OutageInfrastructure2018-19584Power outage
Power OutageInfrastructure2018-19184Power outage - other
Power OutageInfrastructure2017-18188Power outage caused by downed power lines. No water/heat/phones
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2004-05185State Hwy 299 closed due to major mountain slide, buses unable to transport students.
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2005-06691State of emergency declared in Trinity. Severe storms caused widespread power outages and impassable roads.
Power OutageInfrastructure2005-06191downed trees on power lines caused outage for approx. 40 hours
Power OutageInfrastructure2007-08295no electricity - power company turned power off for work
Power OutageInfrastructure2007-08395power outage

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.