School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Feather Falls Elementary
Feather Falls Union Elementary District
Total Closure Days
10
Total Closure Days
5
Total Closure Days
6
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
5
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
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Students Impacted
10
Students Impacted
13
Students Impacted
13
Students Impacted
11
Students Impacted
11
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
35
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
50
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 | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Oroville Dam Flooding | Natural Disasters & Weather | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Animal & Insect Threat | Infrastructure | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Valley Fire 2015 | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 1 | 35 | 1-9-08 snow and ice |
| Animal & Insect Threat | Infrastructure | 2007-08 | 2 | 35 | 10-25&26-2007 wasp infestation |
| Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 2018-19 | 10 | 10 | 2018 Wildfires - Camp Fire - State of Emergency |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2007-08 | 1 | 35 | 9-17-07 main water pipe broke |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2002-03 | 5 | 50 | Community and school was without power for over a week. |
| Valley Fire 2015 | Wildfires | 2015-16 | 1 | 11 | Evacuation due to wildfire |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 2017-18 | 5 | 13 | Evacuation due to wildfire, and cleanup |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 1 | 13 | Inclement weather resulted in flooding, mudslides, and road closures. Governor Brown issued State of Emergency. |
| Oroville Dam Flooding | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 5 | 13 | Oroville Dam Spillway (Evacuation) State of Emergency |
| Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 1 | 11 | Pineapple Express - Winter Storm |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2015-16 | 1 | 11 | Well went dry. |
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.