Coronavirus Information & Updates

Health guidelines

Students who test positive for COVID-19 and show symptoms are required to stay at home and may NOT attend school.
- As always, parents should contact the school and report this absence. When reporting the absence, please include the date the positive test was administered and the first day the student experienced symptoms.
- When the student is fever and symptom-free, he or she should return to school the following day but must wear a mask on campus for an additional five days.
Students exposed to someone with COVID-19 in school:
- The school will notify families of students who spent more than a cumulative total of 15 minutes (within a 24-hour time period) in shared indoor airspace with someone with COVID-19 during their period of infectiousness.
  - Notification will occur by "groups" of exposed students.
  - Notifications will be provided to all individuals considered exposed
  - Students exposed on campus, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status or prior infection, should get tested for COVID-19 with at least one diagnostic test obtained within 3-5 days after the last exposure.
    - In the event of wide-scale and/or repeated exposures, once-weekly testing for COVID-19 may be considered until exposure events become less frequent.
- Students exposed at school may continue to participating in all aspects of K-12 schooling, including sports and extracurricular activities, unless they develop symptoms and test positive for COVID-19.
- Any FDA-approved antigen diagnostic test, PCR diagnostic test, or pooled PCR test is acceptable for evaluating an individual's COVID-19 status.
Students exposed to someone with COVID-19 at home, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status or prior infection, should get tested for COVID-19 with at least one diagnostic test obtained immediately.
- If they test positive and show symptoms, they should stay at home and follow the school guidance in the section above.
Students exposed to someone with COVID-19 in the community, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status or prior infection, should get tested for COVID-19 with at least one diagnostic test obtained immediately and again 3-5 days after the last exposure.
- If they test positive and show symptoms, they should stay home and follow the school guidance in the section above.
- Students exposed in the community may continue participating in all aspects of K-12 schooling, including sports and extracurricular activities, unless they develop symptoms and test positive for COVID-19.