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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
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.

Steps to Return to School

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.

Steps to Return After Positive Test

COVID-19 Email Updates