Denver Public Schools reports 66 COVID-19 cases in August throughout the district

Denver Public Schools has had 44 unit members and 22 students trial affirmative for COVID-19 successful August truthful far.

Most schools started backmost with on-site classes Monday. In the archetypal 2 days this week, the territory had 18 affirmative cases — 10 students and 8 unit members, said Will Jones, a territory spokesman. The 18 cases are portion of the full 66 DPS cases truthful acold this caller schoolhouse year. Some schools started backmost anterior to Monday.

The DPS nursing services squad has been tracking the data, Jones said.

“Because of the quality of this situation, we volition respond arsenic needed. We are consulting with nationalist wellness partners,” Jones said. “So acold truthful good, arsenic acold arsenic keeping retired students successful the classroom.”

The schoolhouse territory requires students, teachers, schoolhouse unit and visitors to deterioration masks wrong buildings and connected buses, careless of their vaccination status. The territory has 13,900 employees — of which astir 4,900 are teachers — and astir 90,000 students.

If a pupil oregon unit subordinate is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms oregon has been successful adjacent interaction with a confirmed oregon suspected case, they’re instructed to notify their schools’ COVID-19 coordinators, according to DPS protocol. There are 2 coordinators astatine each school: the schoolhouse caregiver and a staffer chosen by schoolhouse administrators. Coordinators marque decisions astir whether students oregon unit should quarantine oregon isolate, and for however long.

STEM School Highlands Ranch

Several students astatine the STEM School Highlands Ranch person either tested affirmative for COVID-19, are presumed affirmative oregon person pending COVID tests.

The schoolhouse is moving with the Tri-County Health Department to analyse and negociate an outbreak of COVID-19, STEM said Tuesday connected its website.

“In collaboration with TCHD, we person had to marque the determination to determination our second-grade students to virtual learning for tomorrow, Wednesday, arsenic we proceed to analyse this situation,” STEM said successful connection to schoolhouse families.

School officials volition scope retired Wednesday with “further quarantine directions for those considered perchance exposed.

“As our fig of affirmative and presumed-positive COVID cases proceed to increase, we could person to modulation our remaining grades to virtual learning for a 14-day period, per TCHD orders,” schoolhouse officials said.

Families of elementary students astatine STEM were told to “prepare for the anticipation of transitioning to virtual learning.”

STEM volition not beryllium conducting declaration tracing and volition not beryllium requiring quarantining, different than the COVID-positive student, the schoolhouse said Monday. “We are asking families to support immoderate pupil location who is exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19.”

On Monday, STEM School announced that each sixth-grade students volition stay successful distant learning done Aug. 30, aft students tested affirmative and respective others had symptoms.

Founded successful 2011, the STEM schoolhouse has 500 students successful its simple grades and 1,200 successful secondary grades. It’s a charter schoolhouse successful the Douglas County School District with grades K-12.