School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Palo Verde Elementary
Palo Verde Union Elementary District
Total Closure Days
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0
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0
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0
Total Closure Days
4
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
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0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Schools Impacted
0
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0
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0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
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0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
529
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
533
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
554
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
549
Students Impacted
560
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
513
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
546
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 | 11 | 1 | 11 |
| 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 | 2004-05 | 1 | 513 | Closure due to dangerous road conditions - dense fog |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2008-09 | 1 | 549 | Extremely foggy weather -- As we are a rural school district, all of our students are bussed. The fog creates very hazardous driving conditions, which is a danger to both staff and students. We have built threed (3) foggy day make-ups into our school calendar, however this year we have had to cancel four (4) days. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 2 | 560 | Extremely foggy weather. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 4 | 529 | Fog |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2002-03 | 1 | 546 | Fog Days |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2012-13 | 1 | 533 | Fog day - rural district and all students are bused in. Hazardous driving conditions. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2010-11 | 1 | 554 | Fog day. Extreme fog. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2002-03 | 1 | 546 | One power outage day |
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.