Keeping Our Students Safe & In School
Wayzata Public Schools COVID-19 Information
District COVID-19 Guidelines for 2022-23
Stay Home When Sick
If you have symptoms of COVID-19, stay home, monitor the symptoms and test for COVID-19.
Report All Positive COVID-19 Cases
- Use COVID-19 Reporting Form
- Attendance for Students: Please complete the COVID-19 Reporting Form AND go into Skyward Family Access and mark CP (COVID-19 positive) for the days your student will be absent from school.
If Student/Staff Tests Positive for COVID-19
Isolate Away from Others Immediately
- You must isolate yourself from others for 5 full days from the date your symptoms started; or if you did not have symptoms, isolate yourself from others from the date you tested positive.
- You may return to school/work on day 6 if symptoms are improving and you have been fever free without the use of fever-reducing medication for 24 hours.
- CDC recommends wearing a mask through day 10 after symptoms start, or testing positive if there are no symptoms.
- What does “symptoms improving” mean?
- You no longer feel ill.
- You can do your daily routine just as you did before you were ill.
- Any remaining symptoms, such as a cough or runny nose, are very mild or infrequent.
- What does “symptoms improving” mean?
COVID-19 Exposure At Home
- If you live with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 and needs to quarantine:
- You do NOT need to quarantine (regardless of vaccination status).
- Get tested if you have symptoms and/or five days after the exposure.
COVID-19 Exposure at School
- We will not be quarantining close contacts who were potentially exposed while at school.
Notification of Positive COVID-19 Cases in Classrooms
Families will be notified when 5% of the entire school has tested positive for COVID-19. For more information about positive cases districtwide, visit the COVID-19 Dashboard.
Masks and COVID-19 Testing Kits Available Upon Request
Masks and COVID-19 testing kits are available upon request by contacting your school health office.
COVID-19 Dashboard
Effective October 21, 2022, please refer to the Hennepin County COVID-19 Public Dashboard for the most current, local COVID-19 data.