COVID

List of 11 items.

• Self-Screening

  All staff and students should screen daily for symptoms before arriving on campus. Symptoms include fever/chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue or aches, headache, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.

   

  If an individual exhibits COVID-19 symptoms during the school day or during after-school activities, they will be screened with an on-campus antigen COVID test. If a student tests positive, we will notify parents immediately and begin isolation procedures. 

• Masking

  Masks are required indoors for everyone.  Masks are optional outdoors for everyone. Click HERE for more information about SDCOE masking guidelines.

• Physical Distancing

  Physical distancing is no longer required for schools when other mitigation strategies, such as masking, are in place. 

• Reporting Vaccination Status

  All on-campus community members must report their COVID vaccination status if they have not already done so.  Please email nursing@pacificridge.org and provide the name and grade of your child(ren), the brand of vaccine administered, and attach a copy of their vaccination card(s).  

   

  Anyone who has not reported their vaccination status by August 25 will be considered not fully vaccinated and scheduled for weekly on-campus COVID testing until fully vaccinated status is reported.

• On-Campus COVID Testing

  We ask that all students and staff sign up for the COVID testing program. Permission forms are in your Magnus portal and you will need to respond to a text/email from Primary, our testing platform, to receive test results.

   

  Fully vaccinated community members will be tested based upon the development of symptoms and potentially after close contact with a positive individual.

   

  Unvaccinated community members will take a weekly COVID test in our health office.  If identified as a close contact, they will be tested three times during the 10-day post-exposure period (or quarantine for 7+ days, depending on the nature of the contact).

• Definition of Close Contact

  Close Contact = 15 minutes or more (within a 24-hour period) within six feet of a COVID-positive individual regardless of mask status. Anyone who shares a classroom with a positive individual is considered a close contact.

• Close Contact Protocols

  Fully vaccinated close contacts do NOT need to quarantine and may return to school immediately. Suggested: Monitor for symptoms and consider testing after 3-5 days.

   

  Unvaccinated, asymptomatic close contacts from masked contact may return to school immediately. Required: Students may remain in school with negative test results taken ASAP (within 24 hours) of notification and on Day 5, 6 or 7.

   

  Unvaccinated, asymptomatic close contacts from maskless contact must quarantine for 7 or more days. Students may return to campus on Day 8: Testing is recommended ASAP (within 24 hours), and required on Day 5, 6 or 7.
  
  Close contact exposures that take place off campus must quarantine for the full 14 days. Exceptions are only granted for close contacts that take place in supervised K12 settings.

• Academic Continuity for Those Who Are Ill

  When a student tests positive for COVID, that student must immediately begin off-campus isolation.  The most recent (August 12, 2021) SDCOE COVID-19 Decision Tree shows that a positive test will result in a student staying home for at least 10 days after testing or symptom onset.  When that occurs, we will expect a one-day absence from classes (in the usual way) while conversations can occur between the family and the appropriate Division Head and/or Dean.  During those conversations, we will determine the best combination of resources to keep students connected to their classes while they are away.  As discussed in our June 4 communication, Zoom interaction for classes in 2021-2022 will not be as interactive as last year, and days off campus will be considered absences from school.  However, we are pleased to be able to provide this limited connectivity to classrooms and connection to teachers via remote technology after positive COVID tests.

• Contact Tracing

  Notifications about positive cases will be sent to staff and close contacts; cases will be recorded for the school community on this webpage.  

   

• Visitors/Volunteers

  Visitors who self-screen for symptoms and follow our masking policy are currently welcome on campus. This policy will be reviewed and updated as needed.

• Additional Safety Measures

  For indoor spaces, MERV-13 filters are still in place and ventilation will continue to be optimized. Hand hygiene (frequently washing hands, avoiding contact with one’s eyes, nose, and mouth, and covering coughs and sneezes) will be encouraged among students and staff. Daily cleaning will continue to remove any potential virus that may linger on surfaces, with specific focus remaining on high-touch surfaces such as door and sink handles and drinking fountains. Water bottle filling stations will continue to be utilized on campus.