School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Fort Sage Middle
Fort Sage Unified District
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
3
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
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
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Students Impacted
20
Students Impacted
13
Students Impacted
17
Students Impacted
22
Students Impacted
14
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
25
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
41
Students Impacted
40
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
45
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 | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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 | 2018-19 | 1 | 20 | Buses cancelled due to inclement weather |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 2 | 17 | Inclement weather resulted in school closures. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2016-17 | 1 | 17 | Power outage and road closures. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2009-10 | 2 | 25 | Roads were impassable due to inclement weather. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2002-03 | 1 | 45 | Severe storm dropped power lines, resulting in loss of electricity, storm flooded Sierra Primary School (12/17/02) |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2017-18 | 1 | 13 | Snow - impassable roads |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 1 | 14 | Storm caused damage to school sites and power outages. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2015-16 | 1 | 22 | Storm caused roads to become extremely icy and unsafe. Rural area where most students are bused. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2004-05 | 4 | 40 | Storm of the century. Snowdrifts up to 5 feet. Located in rural Lassen County where roads were not plowed for several days. Buses couldn't get out onto streets. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2005-06 | 1 | 41 | heavy snow, power outage, impassable roads, unsafe conditions |
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.