School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Cox Bar Elementary
Trinity Alps Unified District
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
3
Total Closure Days
3
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
6
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
10
Students Impacted
12
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
14
Students Impacted
16
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
21
Students Impacted
24
Students Impacted
23
Overall Closures
| Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Other Reasons | Other | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Wildfire Closures
Natural Disasters & Weather Closures
Infrastructure Closures
Other 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 1 | 6 | "Pineapple Express" - Massive storm; high winds, flooding and power outages. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2006-07 | 1 | 16 | 02/27/07 - hazardous/impassable roads caused by inclement weather |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2006-07 | 1 | 16 | 02/28/07 - power outage due to downed line |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2012-13 | 2 | 10 | Due to severe storms and downed power lines, no power and telephone service. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 1 | 14 | Highway 299 was closed due to an accident caused by a severe storm. The roads were hazardous and impassable due to inclement weather. |
| Other Reasons | Other | 2011-12 | 1 | 12 | Impassable road due to the accident of a propane truck. The only access road in and out of the school. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2002-03 | 1 | 23 | Loss of power |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2003-04 | 1 | 24 | Loss of power due to high winds and snow |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2004-05 | 1 | 21 | No electricity due to main power line being down between Hyampom and Big Bar |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 2 | 14 | Power outages due to high winds and severe storms |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 2006-07 | 1 | 16 | road closures due to forest fire |
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.