COVID-19 Protocols

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• Masks

  Face masks are optional indoors and outdoors on RE's campuses. If a student tests positive or is identified as a close contact, masks will be required as outlined below.

• Vaccinations for COVID-19

  Ransom Everglades strongly encourages the COVID-19 vaccination and booster for all eligible students, faculty and staff. Please keep Ransom Everglades apprised of updates to your child’s vaccination status. Email the appropriate campus nurse at the middle school or upper school and you will be given guidance on how to submit your child’s vaccination information if you have not already done so.

• Illness

  If your child shows symptoms of illness – such as fever, cough or runny nose – you must keep your child home from school and report the absence via SchoolPass. A school nurse may contact you.

  
  

  Children who show any symptoms of illness on campus will be sent home.

  
  If your child’s symptoms are consistent with COVID-19, contact your primary care physician and have your child tested for COVID-19. Students who test negative for COVID-19 may return to campus when they are symptom/fever free for 24 hours.

• Positive test for COVID-19

  Whether vaccinated or unvaccinated, an individual who tests positive for COVID-19 must report the result to the appropriate campus via email.
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  The individual also must isolate (stay home from school and isolate from other people) for five days, and notify individuals who are close contacts. (The first day of symptoms or of the positive test is day zero of the five-day isolation period, per the CDC.) To return to school, students who test positive must be fever-free for 24 hours and symptoms must be improving. They will be required to wear a face mask on campus at all times indoors and outdoors when with others for an additional five days.

• Close contacts and quarantines

  A student, teacher or staff member identified as a close contact* of a COVID-19 individual, regardless of vaccination status, should follow these guidelines:

  
  If the close contact is fully vaccinated, the close contact

  • should continue coming to school unless experiencing COVID-19 symptoms
  • should test for COVID-19 on day five after exposure to the positive individual
  • should wear a mask for 10 days after the close contact, indoors and outdoors when with others

  
  If not fully vaccinated, the close contact

  • must quarantine (stay home from school) for five days
  • must be tested for COVID-19 (rapid antigen or PCR) on day five after the close contact
  • may return to campus after five days if the COVID-19 test is negative, and the individual is not experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms
  • must wear a mask indoors and outdoors on campus and continue to monitor for symptoms until 10 days after exposure

  
  *Go here for the CDC definition of a close contact.

• Visitors

  Visitors who have appointments or are attending school sporting, academic or arts events are welcome on our campuses. All visitors will be required to comply with current COVID-19 protocols when they are on campus.

• Overnight trips

  To attend school-sponsored overnight trips, all students must adhere to any COVID-19 protocols in place for the trip.