COVID-19 Information

When to Return to School

2020-21 School Re-opening Plan
(required for ESSER funding)

Our top two priorities this school year are to keep students and staff attending school in person and to keep them healthy. We are committed to doing everything we can to keep our schools open and minimize the spread of COVID-19. In order to do that, we need your help.

We desperately need your help and cooperation to keep our students and staff healthy, so we can keep our schools open. You have the most power to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in our schools, by following these simple steps.

Here’s what you and your family can do to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in our community and in our schools:

Following state guidance, we will no longer do contact tracing starting Tuesday, March 1, 2022. The NC Department of Health and Human Services has determined, “individual contact tracing is a less effective tool for responding to the pandemic at this phase.”

Without contact tracing, we will notify entire groups, including students and staff, if someone in that group is diagnosed with COVID-19. 

Examples:

• Classes - we will notify an entire class if someone associated with that class has COVID-19.

• Buses - we will notify an entire bus if someone on that bus has COVID-19.

• Athletic teams - we will notify the entire team if someone associated with the team has COVID-19.

Here’s what we’re doing in our schools to minimize the community spread of COVID-19: