School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Janesville Elementary
Janesville Union Elementary District
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
343
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
328
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
357
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
405
Students Impacted
413
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
442
Students Impacted
449
Students Impacted
463
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
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 | 12 | 1 | 12 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Facilities Issues | 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 | 2006-07 | 2 | 442 | 02/26/07 - hazardous roads due to snow storm; 02/27/07 - system-wide power failure due to snow storm |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2004-05 | 1 | 463 | A "Frozen Rain" storm early in the morning prevented buses from running. Icy roads and campus made school too dangerous for students and staff. |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2009-10 | 1 | 413 | Extreme cold temperatures created frozen/burst pipes in the cafeteria/kitchen along with a broker heater unit in the cafeteria/kitchen. Unable to serve meals to students. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2010-11 | 2 | 405 | Heavy wind and snow caused a system wide power failure in the Janesville, California area. The power failure included Janesville Elementary School |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 1 | 343 | Inclement weather resulted in power failure. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2016-17 | 1 | 343 | Power failure caused the school to close prior to students arriving |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 2 | 343 | Power failure due to inclement weather. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2012-13 | 1 | 357 | Snow and icy roads |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2009-10 | 1 | 413 | Snow storm caused system-wide power failure. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2005-06 | 1 | 449 | Snow storm made roads unsafe for buses to transport students to school. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 1 | 328 | Storm caused power 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.