by Mary Rupert
Two schools in the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools district recently returned to a mask rule for students and staff.
The two schools had experienced an upswing in COVID-19 cases, according to district officials at the Tuesday Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools Board of Education meeting.
The district policy now is when a school building reaches COVID cases of 5 percent or greater, it will go back to masks, Superintendent Anna Stubblefield said.
The two schools that had to go back to masks recently were Lindbergh Elementary and Pearson Elementary, according to district officials.
If a school experiences a surge of COVID cases, the district officials may not wait until the new dashboard figures come out on Monday, but might decide on masks earlier than that, according to the superintendent.
Lindbergh’s case surge was in a previous week, while Pearson’s surge was not yet reported on the district’s dashboard.
According to the school district’s COVID dashboard, Wyandotte High School had 27 COVID related absences, which was 1.4 percent of the total number of students and staff. Sumner Academy had 15 cases, which was 1.3 percent.
The data by school building, as of last Monday, is listed at https://kckps.org/covid-19-statistics-by-school/.
Wyandotte County’s current community level is “low,” according to the CDC’s rankings.