November 30, 2020

Republic School District Families and Employees,

Below you'll find the positive COVID19 cases reported to the district November 25-30. Although the list may appear "long", please note that this report includes six days. As a reminder, the district will announce which phase we will be in for December 3 on the afternoon of December 1. At this point the number of employees and students in quarantine or isolation is back down to the levels we saw in early September. We will continue to monitor reports we receive throughout the rest of this evening and tomorrow morning.

  • Lyon Elementary: One Lyon employee: The employee was last on campus when considered contagious November 19.
  • McCulloch Elementary: One McCulloch employee: The employee was last on campus when considered contagious November 23.
  • Price Elementary: One Price student: The student was never on campus when considered contagious. One Price employee: The employee was last on campus when considered contagious November 20.
  • Schofield Elementary: One Schofield student: The student was last on campus when considered contagious November 19. One Schofield employee: The employee was last on campus when considered contagious November 20.
  • Sweeny Elementary: Two Sweeny students: The first student was last on campus when considered contagious November 19. and the second was never at school when contagious. Two Sweeny employees: The first employee was last on campus when considered contagious November 24, and the second was never at school when contagious.
  • RMS: Two RMS students: The first student was last on campus when considered contagious November 11 and the second on November 19. Two RMS employees: Neither employee was on campus when considered contagious.
  • RHS: Six RHS students: Five of the students were never on campus when considered contagious. The sixth student was last on campus when considered contagious November 19. Two RHS employees: The first employee was last on campus when considered contagious November 23 and the second was never on campus when considered contagious. 

At the direction of the Springfield-Greene County Health Department all students and employees who were exposed to the individuals who tested positive for COVID19 will be directed to self-isolate and quarantine. Those directly exposed will receive individual phone calls. Due to the increased number of positive cases, individual phone calls to those exposed are still in progress. Springfield-Greene County Health Department will be stepping in to assist the district with these calls through the utilization of a third party company called Maximus. Therefore, if your student is a close contact to one of the positive cases, you will be contacted by either a school administrator or a Maximus employee on behalf of the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. Maximus will be calling from a 314 area code phone number.

Now that Thanksgiving Break is over, please contact our schools to report any positive COVID19 cases.

As a reminder, exposure notifications will be distributed each evening (and at the completion of the weekend) that there is a positive case in our district. Also, we want to take this opportunity to remind our patrons about the rules we are required to follow per the CDC and Springfield-Greene County Health Department in regards to isolation and quarantine situations using the graphic below. In addition, details and example scenarios can be found on the CDC website at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html.
Information in regards to the district's response to COVID19 (including a weekly case tracker) can be found at https://www.republicschools.org/healthupdates. Thank you for your support and flexibility as we navigate this time.


Josey McPhail
Director of Communications
Republic School District