The district plans to welcome students from kindergarten through eighth grade back to school beginning Monday. High school students will return to school beginning Jan. 19. Students will return in a hybrid model, with younger students attending school in-person for half-days five days a week, while high school students would be in-person two full days a week.
Some buildings and rooms did not have the capacity for the MERV 13 filters, Larson-Shidler said. Some frames at Groves and Seaholm high schools would not fit the filters, so instead, the district installed ultraviolet lights instead, which are designed to kill viruses such as the one that causes COVID-19.