School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
North Fork Elementary
Chawanakee Unified District
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
250
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
268
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
184
Students Impacted
188
Students Impacted
203
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
286
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
305
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 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Railroad Fire 2017 | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 California Windstorm | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2004-05 | 1 | 305 | Damaged PG&E equipment caused a power failure in the town of North Fork and surrounding areas. |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2015-16 | 1 | 268 | Fire and explosion of an electrical transformer on campus. Fire department closed campus. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2010-11 | 3 | 188 | Major Storm |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2009-10 | 1 | 203 | Power outage |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2010-11 | 1 | 188 | Power was out in the entire school district. Students, staff and buses were unable to get to school due to snow. |
| 2011 California Windstorm | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2011-12 | 1 | 184 | Severe windstorm caused power outages-state of emergency |
| Railroad Fire 2017 | Wildfires | 2017-18 | 1 | 250 | Wildfire in Madera county-State of Emergency |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2007-08 | 1 | 286 | power outage from 6 am - 12 pm |
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.