Prolonged Unplanned K-12 School Closures in the United States

Records document prolonged unplanned closures of public K-12 schools and districts across the United States from August 2011 to June 2019. The dataset includes closure events lasting five or more school days, excluding scheduled breaks. It is provided by data.cdc.gov and was last updated in April 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns of closures by aggregating events by DateClosure and Epi_week columns.
• Assess geographic distribution of closures by State, DistrictNCESID, and SchoolNCESID identifiers.
• Categorize closure causes using EventName, EventDesc, and EventType columns.
• Calculate closure duration by computing the interval between DateClosure and DateReopened fields.
• Link closure events to specific administrative units using DistName and SchoolName columns.

Strengths

• Covers a multi-year period from 2011 to 2019.
• Includes both district-level (DistWeb) and school-level (SchoolWeb) identifiers.
• Provides standardized event categorization via EventType and EventType_2 columns.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count and sample size.
• Data is not current, ending in mid-2019.
• Unknown license terms for usage.

Provenance

Source

data.cdc.gov

Time Range

August 1, 2011 – June 30, 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2022-04-21.

Geography

United States