School Districts

ABC Unified

Anywhere County, CA

Schools

ABC High

ABC Unified

ABC Middle

ABC Unified

Ukiah High

Ukiah Unified District

Total Closure Days

2

Total Closure Days

5

Total Closure Days

2

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

Total Closure Days

0

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

1

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

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0

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0

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0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Schools Impacted

0

Students Impacted

1,619

Students Impacted

1,616

Students Impacted

1,601

Students Impacted

0

Students Impacted

0

Students Impacted

0

Students Impacted

0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0


Overall Closures

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2017 Wine Country FiresWildfires515
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather313
Camp Fire 2018Wildfires111

Wildfire Closures

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Natural Disasters & Weather Closures

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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
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Camp Fire 2018Wildfires2018-19116192018 Wildfires - Camp Fire - Air Quality
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2016-1721601Inclement weather resulted in road closures and flooding.
2017 Wine Country FiresWildfires2017-1851616Mendocino County wildfires-State of Emergency
Inclement WeatherNatural Disasters & Weather2018-1911619Severe weather conditions/flooding

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.