School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Plum Valley Elementary
Antelope Elementary District
Total Closure Days
5
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
5
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
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
3
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
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
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Students Impacted
15
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
16
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
21
Students Impacted
17
Students Impacted
17
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
31
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
30
Students Impacted
30
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
44
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 | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Pineapple Express | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Fire 2018 | Wildfires | 2018-19 | 1 | 15 | 2018 Wildfire - Camp Fire - air quality |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2013-14 | 1 | 17 | Drought. No water. Due to unusually dry conditions the schools well pump would need to be lowered. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2004-05 | 1 | 30 | Hazardous weather - wind advisory, gusts of up to 50 mph |
| Pineapple Express | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2014-15 | 1 | 21 | Pineapple Express - Winter Storm |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2002-03 | 2 | 44 | Power outage (12/16, 12/17) |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2018-19 | 3 | 15 | Power outage - weather |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 1 | 16 | Power outage due to weather |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 4 | 31 | Power outage. Severe storm with high winds. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2018-19 | 1 | 15 | Road closure - weather |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2005-06 | 2 | 30 | Severe weather and hazadous road conditions. Wind gusts up to 60 mph. |
| Other Wildfires | Wildfires | 2012-13 | 5 | 17 | Wildfire and evacuations. Local road closures due to fire suppression operations |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2002-03 | 1 | 44 | impassable roads due to snow (12/20) |
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.