Map: Coronavirus and School Closures in 2019-2020

Looking for information about the 2020-21 school year? Education Week is tracking where schools are currently open or closed due to COVID-19 here: Map: Where Has COVID-19 Closed Schools? Where Are They Open?

The coronavirus pandemic forced a near-total shutdown of school buildings in the spring of 2020—an historic upheaval of K-12 schooling in the United States.

Education Week tracked and documented the closures—first at the school district level and ultimately, state-by-state, from March 6 to May 15. We will no longer update this page.

At their peak, the closures affected at least 55.1 million students in 124,000 U.S. public and private schools. Nearly every state either ordered or recommended that schools remain closed through the end of the 2019-20 school year.

For more information, see our detailed coverage of the pandemic and its impact on schools.