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Post by jennifercw on Aug 23, 2021 17:01:31 GMT
Is anyone following/publishing overall data for COVID in public K-12 schools and comparing systems with mask mandates to those without? Or planning to do so - since many schools haven't even started back yet? I'm just curious...
Does your school system publish their numbers publicly?
Ours is reporting how many students/staff are out each day with COVID - and assumes a 10 day period of isolation. (So the number does not reflect "new" cases.) NO mask mandate here. Over 50,000 face to face students and staff.
August 9-13: 277 (first week, numbers not broken down further) August 16: 437 (366/students, 71/staff) August 23: 836 (738/students, 98/staff)
ETA August 25: 975 (881 students/94 staff)
Seems like quite a jump in 2 weeks. And that's just the KNOWN positive cases.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2021 17:08:32 GMT
Ds' no, dh's yes. But it was taken down due to an error. Should be back up soon.
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Post by melanell on Aug 23, 2021 17:17:31 GMT
Ours is updated every day, on their public website.
Each day they tell us how many people in each of the district's schools have tested positive, are out awaiting test results, or are out due to being in close contact with someone who tested positive.
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Post by maryland on Aug 23, 2021 17:27:27 GMT
They did most of last year but I don't know if they will do it now. They are following parents saying masks don't work and kids can't get covid and kids can't breathe with masks. I think our school board is done with covid. So happy we are done with that school!
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Post by dawnnikol on Aug 23, 2021 17:29:35 GMT
Our district is updating every Friday, but we've only just surpassed a week of school. Our district has 29,244 enrolled, but they introduced a virtual school that is part of those numbers this year and I don't know how many are enrolled. I know my kids each have 20-21 kids in their online elementary class. The average class size in our district for elementary is 20.5, middle is 22, and HS is 25.5 for scale.
We have a mask mandate in place until October when the board will review.
Our new student cases for 8/12 - 8/19 were: 76 New Cases and 138 New Quarantine
New staff cases for the same period were: 31 New Cases and 48 New Quarantine
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Post by scrappychick on Aug 23, 2021 17:54:19 GMT
Our state requires reporting from every school by 2pm each day. That link to that data is published on our district website.
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Aug 23, 2021 18:06:31 GMT
In Dubai, we got notice every time there was a positive case in the school which also told the grade and the last day they attended school. I kept a spreadsheet to determine for myself if COVID could have spread at the school.
I don’t know yet what they do in NJ but I’m a bit nervous. I felt last year that I could somewhat assess the risk of attending school and make decisions based on that info.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 23, 2021 18:42:12 GMT
Check to your local school board. ExpatBackHome BTW: Welcome to NJ.
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Post by dizzycheermom on Aug 23, 2021 18:43:23 GMT
Is anyone following/publishing overall data for COVID in public K-12 schools and comparing systems with mask mandates to those without? Or planning to do so - since many schools haven't even started back yet? I'm just curious... Does your school system publish their numbers publicly? Ours is reporting how many students/staff are out each day with COVID - and assumes a 10 day period of isolation. (So the number does not reflect "new" cases.) NO mask mandate here. Over 50,000 face to face students and staff. August 9-13: 277 (first week, numbers not broken down further) August 16: 437 (366/students, 71/staff) August 23: 836 (738/students, 98/staff) Seems like quite a jump in 2 weeks. And that's just the KNOWN positive cases. Almost doubling every week...
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 23, 2021 18:47:22 GMT
Neither the one I work in nor the one ds attends publishes data.
I also live in the land of don't test/don't tell
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Post by jennifercw on Aug 23, 2021 19:24:56 GMT
Our district is updating every Friday, but we've only just surpassed a week of school. Our district has 29,244 enrolled, but they introduced a virtual school that is part of those numbers this year and I don't know how many are enrolled. I know my kids each have 20-21 kids in their online elementary class. The average class size in our district for elementary is 20.5, middle is 22, and HS is 25.5 for scale. We have a mask mandate in place until October when the board will review. Our new student cases for 8/12 - 8/19 were: 76 New Cases and 138 New Quarantine New staff cases for the same period were: 31 New Cases and 48 New Quarantine If you think about it - will you come back to this thread with updated numbers next week? I'd be interested to see if your mask mandate (anecdotally) helps limit an increase! Almost doubling every week... To be clear, the number of students/staff out is almost doubling every week - not the number of new cases, right? If they are assuming 10 days at home then many of those out on August 16 are likely still out on the 23. But maybe I'm not interpreting that correctly? Wonder how high it will go before they either mandate masks or go virtual. Masks weren't mandated last year either and numbers were mostly ok - but that was before Delta.
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Post by Linda on Aug 23, 2021 19:31:49 GMT
lol...I live in Florida where even the state data is only released once a week.
Based on what DD14 has said about how many classmates are out quaranting and as of today, so is one of her teachers....it's bad. But my county is the hotspot for Florida with the highest per capita cases for 2 weeks in a row now...yay!
Local friends (also with 9th graders at the same school) are reporting that they are getting calls TODAY to have their kid quarantine for an exposure the first week of school (11th-13th of Aug) so obviously contact tracing within the school is going spectacularly.
Neither the school website, school FB page, nor the school district website has ANY mention of covid - not precautions, not cases, ... nothing -you would think we weren't in year 2 of a global pandemic...
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 23, 2021 19:36:20 GMT
Last year it was only on the County website updated once a week, I did get robo calls from all 4 of my kids schools when there was a case, but it did not count on the county statistics because the students never got COVID at school... or it couldn't be proven anyway.
Now all the schools in our district have their COVID data on the front page of their website. There is no data yet though because school doesn't start until next week...
ETA: as of 8/28, 3 days before school starts there are 10 cases in our district. 7 staff and 3 students. They update the website once a week.
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 23, 2021 19:50:59 GMT
I don't think so. I don't believe that they did in the spring. We haven't started school yet for the fall.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Aug 23, 2021 20:29:00 GMT
Yes our district updates weekly - second week of school and 36 cases - no school has more than 3 cases. District has about 45,000 students and staff and there is a mask mandate. County vaccination rate for 12+ is also around 80% so that has to be helping.
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Post by ~summer~ on Aug 23, 2021 20:56:37 GMT
Our school district just started publishing a dashboard.
We started 2 weeks ago, there are 5500 students in district and so far we’ve had 19 positives.
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Post by amom23 on Aug 23, 2021 21:26:41 GMT
Nope no data released and no masks or vaccines required. Around here it's pretty much a "What virus?" attitude.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 23, 2021 21:33:36 GMT
Our district had a Covid dashboard last year but they took it down at the end of the school year. School doesn’t start here until next week. I’m not sure how often it was updated, it might have only been weekly.
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Post by dawnnikol on Aug 28, 2021 21:06:07 GMT
If you think about it - will you come back to this thread with updated numbers next week? I'd be interested to see if your mask mandate (anecdotally) helps limit an increase! Just remembered the new info was posted yesterday! Here you go: 8/20-8/26 Student Cases Total New Cases: 99 (76 last week as a reminder) Total New Quarantine: 318 (138 last week) 8/20-8/26 Staff Cases Total New Cases: 15 (31 last week) Total New Quarantine: 34 (48 last week) Our School District numbers: 30,000 students and more than 6,400 full time, part time, and temp staff members.
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Post by Merge on Aug 28, 2021 21:08:39 GMT
We have a district covid dashboard. Accuracy is questionable.
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Post by shamrock on Aug 28, 2021 22:40:49 GMT
We have a district covid dashboard. Accuracy is questionable. Same here. The data is very questionable. District says they get data from county health department. There is a known lag there because they are overwhelmed. I think the main problem is many parents won’t get kids tested if they are sick. No test no Covid and they continue sports and school.
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Post by craftymom101 on Aug 28, 2021 23:11:24 GMT
My district reports 2x week.
Current stats 8/24-8/26:
Number of reported positive cases district wide: 784 Number of quarantines from contact to case: 4,021
The reported cases are only the new cases reported during those three days.
We also had 2 district teachers die from Covid last week.
I live in Florida.
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Post by SockMonkey on Aug 28, 2021 23:17:17 GMT
We post on a dashboard once a week. We include positive cases for staff and students, and quarantine numbers for staff and students.
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Post by katybee on Aug 28, 2021 23:28:32 GMT
Yes….but everyone knows it’s a BIG FAT LIE. I would say maybe 1/3 of actual cases are reported…
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Post by missmcd on Aug 28, 2021 23:36:39 GMT
Our school district updates daily. You can filter by district or individual school. The way reporting goes I can only imagine it's very inaccurate. But better than nothing! Yeeeehaw (in Texas)
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Post by ~Sherri~ on Aug 29, 2021 0:09:28 GMT
The school system where my grandkids go to school publishes a daily report of confirmed Covid cases among students and staff. Right now, my DGD's high school and my DGS's middle school are among the highest in the system. They just implemented a mask mandate but gave parents the option to let their students opt out of wearing one. Not sure if it will help or not.
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Post by fwscrapper on Aug 29, 2021 3:30:22 GMT
Yes, we have a dashboard that reports number of cases in each school, as well as other departments like central admin, maintenance building, bus barn, etc…
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 29, 2021 3:46:31 GMT
They did last year but so far this year there have been no public reports. Our newspaper is weekly so the reports were made daily on our community Facebook page.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 29, 2021 14:22:46 GMT
Last year the district had a chart they updated each school day--cases per 100K, county positivity rate, percent of students absent & percent of staff absent (the last two were useless without a comparison to a "normal" year because I don't think it was just Covid related absences). I haven't seen anything like that this year, but we only started back on Wednesday. However most of the information was posted in relation to the district's own set of metrics regarding when to be online only, hybrid or in person--this year they pretty much have to be in person (and honestly aren't set up to easily go online).
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 7, 2021 10:54:39 GMT
New Student Cases 8/27 - 9/2 Total New Cases: 114 (99 last week) Total New Quarantine: 371 (318 last week)
New Staff Cases 8/27 9/2 Total New Cases: 8 (15 last week) Total New Quarantine: 31 (34 last week)
The Number of Student Confirmed / Staff Confirmed Cases in 2-Week Window for 8/20-8/26
Elementary Student Cases: 95, Quarantine: 359 Elementary Staff Cases: 27, Quarantine: 48
Middle School Student Cases: 38, Quarantine: 68 Middle School Staff Cases: 5, Quarantine, 13
High School Student Cases: 45, Quarantine: 42 High School Staff Cases: 10, Quarantine: 12
Other programs offered in district: 4 Student Cases, 8 Quarantines; Staff Cases: 1, Quarantine: 2
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