School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Sierra Community Day
Summerville Union High District
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2
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2
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Other Reasons | Other | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Natural Disasters & Weather Closures
Infrastructure Closures
Other 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2005-06 | 1 | 3 | Continuous snow fall on 3/14/06 rendering roads unsafe and impassable for duration of school day. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 1 | 1 | Due to severe weather, electrical power was out from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2010-11 | 1 | 1 | Power Outage |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2007-08 | 1 | 1 | Snow fall rendered roads unsafe and impassable for the school day. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2005-06 | 1 | 3 | Sudden and continuous snowfall on 3/3/06 rendering roads unsafe and impassable for duration of school day. |
| Other Reasons | Other | 2006-07 | 1 | 2 | impassable roads |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2006-07 | 1 | 2 | power outage due to severe 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.