School Districts
ABC Unified
Anywhere County, CA
Westwood High
Westwood Unified District
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
3
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
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
2
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
0
Total Closure Days
2
Total Closure Days
1
Total Closure Days
0
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Schools Impacted
1
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
1
Schools Impacted
1
Schools Impacted
0
Students Impacted
101
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
93
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
94
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
110
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
151
Students Impacted
187
Students Impacted
0
Students Impacted
202
Students Impacted
192
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 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|
Reason | Category | School Year | Total Closure Days | Enrollment | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2006-07 | 1 | 187 | 24 hour power outage |
| Facilities Issues | Infrastructure | 2004-05 | 2 | 202 | During Critical Hardship construction project, crews left school roof exposed. A rain and wind storm occurred resulting in severe water damage to 14 classrooms. School was closed until roof was sealed and water removed from CR floors. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2003-04 | 1 | 192 | Electrical power outage |
| Other Reasons | Other | 2007-08 | 1 | 151 | Emergency closure |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2018-19 | 1 | 101 | Impassable roads - weather |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 2 | 93 | Inclement weather resulted in power outages. |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2007-08 | 1 | 151 | Lassen Municipal Utilities shut power off to the whole town of Westwood to replace temp substation |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2014-15 | 1 | 94 | Power outage |
| Power Outage | Infrastructure | 2014-15 | 1 | 94 | Power outage |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2016-17 | 1 | 93 | Power outage due to severe winter storm. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2010-11 | 1 | 110 | Two and a half to three feet of unplowed snow on most roads in town due to county road department equipment breakdowns, unsafe travel conditions for students. Unable to transport students. |
| Inclement Weather | Natural Disasters & Weather | 2006-07 | 1 | 187 | power outage - inclement weather |
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.