San Diego School Closings Today — Live Status & Delays (California)
Are San Diego schools closed today? Check live status below — updated every 10 minutes.
Live status monitored for San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD).
How Are San Diego School Closures Announced?
This San Diego school closings today page tracks San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD), the second-largest district in California, which announces closures and delays through its official website at sandiegounified.org. The district uses SchoolMessenger to send voice calls, text messages, and emails directly to enrolled families as soon as a decision is made, alongside posts to its official social media accounts.
Because SDUSD operates 175 schools spread across coastal, canyon, and inland neighborhoods, closure decisions can affect individual campuses differently — a wildfire evacuation near one school or a localized power shutoff rarely triggers a district-wide closure on its own. Families are encouraged to check their specific school’s status directly. Local television stations including NBC 7 San Diego (KNSD), ABC 10News (KGTV), and CBS 8 (KFMB) also run closure tickers during morning newscasts, especially during Santa Ana wind events. SDUSD aims to post closure decisions as early as possible, ideally by early morning or the evening before when an event is forecast in advance.
Weather Risks That Can Close San Diego Schools
- Santa Ana wind events: Strong, dry offshore winds — sometimes exceeding 50–70 mph in canyon passes and inland valleys — create extreme wildfire danger and frequently prompt Red Flag Warnings, the most common trigger for precautionary closures in San Diego County.
- Wildfires and smoke: San Diego’s dry brushland and wildland-urban interface neighborhoods make it one of the highest wildfire-risk counties in California. Nearby active fires or hazardous air quality from smoke can force individual school closures or evacuations.
- Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS): During critical fire-weather conditions, the local utility may preemptively cut power to high-risk areas, which can force schools without backup power to close for the day.
- Flash flooding and canyon road closures: Winter atmospheric river storms can overwhelm San Diego’s canyon topography, flooding roads and making some school commutes unsafe even from moderate rainfall.
- Dense marine layer fog: An unusually thick coastal fog bank can cut freeway and surface-street visibility during the morning commute, occasionally prompting delayed starts for coastal-adjacent schools.
- Extreme heat: SDUSD does not close schools for heat alone, but campuses without adequate air conditioning may move to a minimum-day schedule when forecast highs reach 95°F or above with high heat index.
Frequently Asked Questions — San Diego School Closings
How early does San Diego Unified School District announce school closures?
SDUSD typically aims to post closure or delay decisions as early as possible, often by early morning on the day of the event, though advance notice the evening before is common when a Santa Ana wind event or storm is forecast ahead of time. Families receive SchoolMessenger calls, texts, and emails as soon as a decision is finalized, and updates are posted to the district’s official website and social media.
What’s the difference between a closure and a delay in San Diego?
A closure means no in-person classes are held that day district-wide or at specific campuses. A delay means the school day starts later than usual, most often used during morning marine-layer fog or when overnight wind damage needs to be cleared before buses can run safely. SDUSD uses closures far more often than delays, since wildfire and power-shutoff risk tends to require a full-day decision rather than a short postponement.
Does SDUSD close every school at once, or just some?
San Diego Unified can and does close individual schools while keeping the rest of the district open, particularly when a localized issue — a nearby wildfire, a Public Safety Power Shutoff, a water main break, or a safety incident — affects only one or a few campuses. District-wide closures are reserved for region-wide weather emergencies or large-scale safety events. Always confirm your specific school’s status using the district’s School Finder or official announcements.
Which San Diego TV stations report school closings?
NBC 7 San Diego (KNSD), ABC 10News (KGTV), and CBS 8 (KFMB) are the primary local television stations that report San Diego County school closure and delay information, particularly during Santa Ana wind events and winter storms. This page automatically monitors all three stations alongside the official SDUSD website, so you get consolidated status without checking multiple sources.
How often is this page updated?
Status checks run automatically every 15 minutes under normal conditions, and every 5 minutes during active National Weather Service alerts for San Diego County, such as Red Flag Warnings or flood watches. The page also shows the exact time of its last successful check so you know how current the information is.
Why don’t San Diego schools close for rain the way some other regions do?
San Diego’s mild, dry climate means the city’s road infrastructure and most drivers are simply not built around heavy weather the way snowbelt or hurricane-coast regions are. Light-to-moderate rain rarely closes schools here. Instead, the triggers that actually shut down San Diego campuses are fire-related — Santa Ana wind-driven wildfires, Red Flag Warnings, and preemptive power shutoffs — along with occasional flash flooding in canyon neighborhoods during the rare atmospheric river storm.
San Diego Unified School District — School Roster
School count approximate — 121 elementary, 24 middle, 21 high, and 2 atypical schools per the district directory and Wikipedia. Verify current rosters at sandiegounified.org/schools.
High Schools
- Canyon Hills High School
- Clairemont High School
- Crawford High School
- East Village Middle College High School
- Garfield High School
- Henry High School
- Hoover High School
- Kearny High Educational Complex
- La Jolla High School
- Lincoln High School
- Madison High School
- Mira Mesa High School
- Mission Bay High School
- Morse High School
- Point Loma High School
- San Diego High Educational Complex
- SD MET High School
- Scripps Ranch High School
- University City High School
- Mark Twain High School
- School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA)
Middle Schools
- Bell Middle School
- Challenger Middle School
- Clark Middle School
- Correia Middle School
- Creative Performing Media Arts
- Dana Middle School
- De Portola Middle School
- Farb Middle School
- Innovation Middle School
- Knox Middle School
- Lewis Middle School
- Mann Middle School
- Marston Middle School
- Millennial Tech Middle School
- Montgomery Middle School
- Muirlands Middle School
- Pacific Beach Middle School
- Pershing Middle School
- Roosevelt International Middle School
- Standley Middle School
- Taft Middle School
- Thurgood Marshall Middle School
- Wangenheim Middle School
- Wilson Middle School
Elementary Schools
- Adams Elementary
- Alcott Elementary
- Angier Elementary
- Baker Elementary
- Balboa Elementary
- Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary
- Bay Park Elementary
- Benchley Weinberger Elementary
- Bird Rock Elementary
- Birney Elementary
- Boone Elementary
- Burbank Elementary
- Cabrillo Elementary
- Carson Elementary STEAM Magnet
- Carver Elementary
- Cherokee Point Elementary
- Chesterton Elementary
- Chollas Mead Elementary
- Cubberley Elementary
- Dewey Elementary
- Edison Elementary
- Ellen Browning Scripps Elementary
- Emerson Elementary
- Encanto Elementary
- Florence Elementary
- Franklin Elementary STEAM Magnet
- Hamilton Elementary
- Hancock Elementary
- Hawthorne Elementary
- Hearst Elementary
- La Jolla Elementary
- Linda Vista Elementary
- Loma Portal Elementary
- Marshall Elementary
- Normal Heights Elementary
- Ocean Beach Elementary
- Pacific Beach Elementary
- Rosa Parks Elementary
- Sandburg Elementary
- Sherman Elementary
- Silver Gate Elementary
- Torrey Pines Elementary
- Walker Elementary
- Washington Elementary
- Zamorano Elementary
TK-8 Schools
- Audubon TK-8
- Bethune UTK-8
- Fulton UTK-8
- Golden Hill TK-8
- Grant TK-8
- John Muir Language Academy TK-8
- Language Academy
- Logan Memorial Educational Campus
- Longfellow UTK-8
- Mountain View School UTK-8
- Perkins UTK-8
Alternative & Specialty Schools
- Alba Community Day School
- Home Hospital and Transition Supports School
- iHigh Virtual Academy
- Marcy High School
- Mt. Everest Academy
- New Dawn High School
- Riley Alternative School
- TRACE Alternative School
- Whittier K-12
Find San Diego School Closings by ZIP Code
Not sure which district serves your ZIP? Find your area below, then check live status above. San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is the only district covered on this page.
SDUSD — Coastal & Central
La Jolla — 92037 ·
Point Loma / La Playa — 92106 ·
Ocean Beach — 92107 ·
Pacific Beach / Crown Point — 92109 ·
Downtown — 92101 ·
Golden Hill — 92102 ·
Mission Hills / Hillcrest — 92103
Schools: La Jolla High School · La Jolla Elementary · Muirlands Middle School · Bird Rock Elementary · Point Loma High School · Loma Portal Elementary · Silver Gate Elementary · Ocean Beach Elementary · Correia Middle School · Dana Middle School · Mission Bay High School · Pacific Beach Elementary · Pacific Beach Middle School · East Village Middle College High School · Golden Hill TK-8
SDUSD — Central & Mid-City
City Heights / Oak Park — 92105 ·
Normal Heights / Kensington / Talmadge — 92116 ·
Bay Park / Old Town — 92110 ·
Linda Vista / Kearny Mesa — 92111 ·
Logan Heights / Barrio Logan / Southcrest — 92113
Schools: Hoover High School · Wilson Middle School · Normal Heights Elementary · Marston Middle School · Bay Park Elementary · Linda Vista Elementary · Kearny High Educational Complex · Logan Memorial Educational Campus · Perkins TK-8 · Memorial Preparatory
SDUSD — North & I-15 Corridor
Clairemont — 92117 ·
University City — 92122 ·
Mira Mesa — 92126 ·
Scripps Ranch (SDUSD portion) — 92131 ⚠ partial
Schools: Clairemont High School · Clairemont Canyons Academy · University City High School · Standley Middle School · Doyle Elementary · Mira Mesa High School · Wangenheim Middle School · Scripps Ranch High School
SDUSD — Southeast & South Bay
Paradise Hills / Skyline — 92139 ·
Encanto / Chollas / Emerald Hills — 92114 ⚠ partial
Schools: Morse High School · Paradise Hills Elementary · Encanto Elementary · Millennial Tech Middle School · Lincoln High School · Knox Middle School · Valencia Park Elementary · Chollas Mead Elementary
SDUSD — College Area & East
College Area / Rolando — 92115 ⚠ partial ·
Del Cerro / San Carlos — 92119 ·
Allied Gardens — 92120 ·
Tierrasanta — 92124 ⚠ partial
Schools: Crawford High School · Rolando Park Elementary · Tierrasanta Elementary
ⓘ SDUSD also administratively includes several non-residential ZIPs on its own campuses/facilities — 92093 (UC San Diego), 92134 (Naval Base San Diego), 92140 (Naval Training Center/Old Town), and 92182 (San Diego State University area) — which are not neighborhood ZIPs and are omitted from the groupings above.
⚠ Unverified school-level placement: dozens of SDUSD schools (e.g. Adams, Baker, Balboa, Emerson, Hamilton, Franklin, Wilson-area elementaries and most K-8s) are not listed above because their neighborhood/ZIP could not be confirmed from the school name alone within this pass — check the district’s School Finder for exact addresses before publishing per-school ZIP claims.
⚠ ZIP overlap note: Per SDUSD’s own boundary page, ZIPs 91942, 91945, 91977, 92114, 92115, 92121, 92124, 92129, 92131, 92136 and 92145 fall only partially within SDUSD — the remainder of each is served by Grossmont Union, La Mesa-Spring Valley, Lemon Grove, or Poway Unified. If your ZIP is one of these, check both your district and SDUSD’s live status, and confirm with your specific school.
All confirmed ZIP codes served by San Diego Unified School District: 92037 · 92101 · 92102 · 92103 · 92104 · 92105 · 92106 · 92107 · 92108 · 92109 · 92110 · 92111 · 92113 · 92116 · 92117 · 92119 · 92120 · 92122 · 92123 · 92126 · 92139
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