School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Kashia Elementary
Kashia Elementary District
Total Closure Days
3
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
7
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
2
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
3
Total Closure Days
6
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Students Impacted
15
Students Impacted
12
Students Impacted
13
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
16
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
11
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
11
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
12
Students Impacted
9
Students Impacted
9
Overall Closures
Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
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Reason | Category | Total Closure Days | Schools Impacted | Average Closure Days |
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Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 20 | 1 | 20 |
Other Reasons | Other | 5 | 1 | 5 |
Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2017 Wine Country Fires | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Power Outage | Infrastructure | 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 |
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Reason | Category | School Year | Total Closure Days | Enrollment | Description |
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Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 2018-19 | 1 | 15 | 2018 Wildfire - Camp Fire - Air Quality |
2017 Wine Country Fires | Wildfires | 2017-18 | 1 | 12 | Extreme air quality concerns-State of Emergency |
Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 1 | 16 | Pineapple Express - winter storm |
Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2002-03 | 1 | 9 | Planned power outage by PG & E (September) - county doesn't receive mail on weekend, received notice too late. |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2009-10 | 1 | 11 | Power outage due to inclement weather. |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 2 | 11 | Power outage due to severe storm |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2002-03 | 5 | 9 | Power outage due to storm (December) |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2009-10 | 3 | 11 | Power outage due to storm. |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 2 | 13 | Power outage due to weather, also mudslides and downed trees causing unsafe roads. |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2004-05 | 1 | 12 | Power outage storm |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2003-04 | 3 | 9 | Power outages at school sites due to winter storms |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2018-19 | 2 | 15 | Severe weather. |
Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 1 | 16 | Storm caused power outage. |
Other Reasons | Other | 2014-15 | 1 | 16 | Teacher and aide were absent due to family illness, no sub available. |
Other Reasons | Other | 2014-15 | 1 | 16 | Unable to secure a teacher |
Other Reasons | Other | 2014-15 | 1 | 16 | Unable to secure a teacher; teacher absence due to illness, no substitute available. |
Other Reasons | Other | 2014-15 | 1 | 16 | Unable to secure a teacher; teacher was terminated on November 14, no substitute available. |
Other Reasons | Other | 2014-15 | 1 | 16 | Unable to secure a teacher; termination of the teacher on November 14th, no substitute available. |
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.