close

POST /api/admin/schools/:orgId/close {name, cursor?} (schools.close: owners, step-up, X-Admin-Reason; §16) →
{closed, cursor?}. Erases every student account and then the school's org; name must be the school's. A cursor
back means students remain: send it back (with the same name) until closed is true. Each call is audited.

Caller and authorization

Staff cookie session; permission schools.close; fresh password + TOTP step-up (10 minutes); X-Admin-Reason required (3–300 characters). Write requests need same-origin JSON and X-Admin-CSRF from this session.

This is the private staff console on https://admin.handwrites.io. A personal API key, organisation token, student login or isolated app-testing credential does not authenticate this route.

Request contract

Location	Name	Required	Meaning
path	`orgId`	Yes	Use the ID from an authorized staff response; source validators reject malformed IDs.
header	`X-Admin-CSRF`	Yes	Session-bound token from the staff page; not a developer credential.
header	`X-Admin-Reason`	Yes	URI-encoded written audit reason; Cloud/billing may reuse a fresh target-specific session marker.

The following is the accepted request shape, expressed as JSON Schema. It is not a runnable example. Runtime refinements and operation rules also apply.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 120
    },
    "cursor": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 2048
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name"
  ]
}

Response and failures

Success: 200. POST /api/admin/schools/:orgId/close {name, cursor?} (schools.close: owners, step-up, X-Admin-Reason; §16) →
{closed, cursor?}. Erases every student account and then the school's org; name must be the school's. A cursor
back means students remain: send it back (with the same name) until closed is true. Each call is audited.

The wrapper returns {error:{code,message}} for CloudError failures, attaches Request-Id, and disables caching. Handle 401 by signing in; show role refusal for 403 forbidden, reauthenticate only for step_up_required, and collect a reason for 400 reason_required. A CSRF failure needs a current page/session token, not blind retries. Operation-specific 404/409/413/422/502/503 errors retain their status. Honor Retry-After on 429.

Usage notes

School status changes and closure may return cursors. Continue the same operation with the returned cursor until completion; do not treat the first response as completion. Closing is destructive and requires the school name.

Implementation contract

Source snapshot: admin/src/app/api/admin/schools/[orgId]/close/route.ts. This reference describes the current working tree, not proof of deployment. The response service types and validators remain authoritative. The exact exported handler below makes conditional behavior reviewable. For helpers such as customer-routes or cloudRoute, see the shared API specification notes and the named service module.

/**
 * POST /api/admin/schools/:orgId/close {name, cursor?} (schools.close: owners, step-up, X-Admin-Reason; §16) →
 * {closed, cursor?}. Erases every student account and then the school's org; `name` must be the school's. A `cursor`
 * back means students remain: send it back (with the same name) until `closed` is true. Each call is audited.
 */
export const POST = adminRoute("schools.close", async (request, ctx, { params }: Context) => {
  const orgId = schoolOrgParam((await params).orgId);
  return adminJson(await closeSchool(ctx, orgId, await readBody(request, BODY)));
}, { rateLimit: "school-close" });

Do not use production customer data to test this operation. Use an authorized staff test account and a disposable target in an appropriate environment; email, deletion, role and credential mutations have real effects.

README — POST /api/admin/schools/{orgId}/close

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