School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Robert P. Ulrich Elementary
Mojave Unified District
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
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
0
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
0
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
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
520
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
634
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
629
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
908
Students Impacted
836
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 | 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 | 2005-06 | 1 | 908 | Excessive rain, flooding causing transporation to/from school impassable. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2017-18 | 1 | 520 | Extreme power outage impacting entire city and police requested use of facility for Red Cross Shelter |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2008-09 | 1 | 629 | Inclement weather caused road closures. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2004-05 | 1 | 836 | On January 7th schools were closed due to inclement weather. Weather changed from rain to snow in the morning and began sticking as the temp dropped. SD officials decided to close schools before the road conditions continued to worsen and became unsafe for the delivery of students. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2012-13 | 1 | 634 | Winter Storm |
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.