School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Concow Elementary
Golden Feather Union Elementary District
Total Closure Days
11
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
5
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Students Impacted
61
Students Impacted
69
Students Impacted
106
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
104
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
115
Students Impacted
114
Students Impacted
37
Students Impacted
63
Students Impacted
79
Students Impacted
80
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
88
Overall Closures
Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
|---|
Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 11 | 1 | 11 |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| Oroville Dam Flooding | Natural Disasters & Weather | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 Butte County Fires | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Wildfire Closures
Natural Disasters & Weather Closures
Infrastructure Closures
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.
Reason | Category | School Year | Total Closure Days | Enrollment | Description |
|---|
Reason | Category | School Year | Total Closure Days | Enrollment | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 2018-19 | 11 | 61 | 2018 Wildfires - Camp Fire |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 2017-18 | 1 | 69 | Cherokee Fire Evacations-State of Emergency |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2010-11 | 1 | 114 | Impassable roads due to low snow levels in the foothills, along with a power outage. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2008-09 | 1 | 63 | Inclement weather caused a power outage. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2002-03 | 1 | 88 | Loss of electricity due to high winds |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2013-14 | 1 | 104 | No water supply due to broken/frozen pipes. |
| Oroville Dam Flooding | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 5 | 106 | Oroville Dam Spillway |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2009-10 | 1 | 37 | Power outage due to high winds |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2011-12 | 1 | 115 | Power outage due to weather |
| 2008 Butte County Fires | Wildfires | 2007-08 | 1 | 79 | State of emergency declared due to fires |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2006-07 | 1 | 80 | power outage and impassable roads due to inclement weather |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 1 | 79 | power outage due to high winds |
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.