School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Lassen County Opportunity
Lassen County Office of Education District
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10
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7
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9
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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 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 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 |
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Reason | Category | School Year | Total Closure Days | Enrollment | Description |
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| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 2008-09 | 1 | 9 | Due to wildlife, power was lost for an entire day in the Big Valley and Fall River Valley area communities. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2011-12 | 1 | 10 | Extremely poor visibility due to snow made roads impassable for buses to pick up students for Juniper Ridge School District. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2011-12 | 1 | 10 | Power outage at the Big Valley USD site |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2012-13 | 1 | 10 | Snow accumulations up to three feet in areas of Big Valley Joint Unified School District. Buses were unable to pick up students. |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2009-10 | 1 | 7 | Temperatures dropped to -20 and the heaters were not working. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2009-10 | 1 | 7 | Widespread 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.