In the Event of a Confirmed COVID-19 Case

Sycamore Community School District 427 will take all precautionary measures to ensure that your child and all staff are safe and healthy at school. If your child is exposed to someone who has COVID-19, the following procedures must be followed.

In This Section:

Staying Home
Who needs to quarantine?
What counts as close contact?
Communication Regarding COVID-19 Illness

Staying Home

Quarantine is used to keep someone who might have been exposed to COVID-19 away from others. Quarantine helps prevent spread of disease that can occur before a person knows they are sick or if they are infected with the virus without feeling symptoms. People in quarantine should stay home, separate themselves from others, monitor their health, and follow directions from their state or local health department.

Who needs to quarantine?

Any student who has not been fully vaccinated, and has been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 should quarantine.

What counts as close contact?

We anticipate revised guidance regarding quarantines from the Illinois Department of Public Health prior to the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year.

Based on the most current guidance, a close contact is:

A person was within 6 feet of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or symptomatic for a cumulative 15 minutes.
A person shared eating or drinking utensils.
Another person sneezed, coughed, or somehow got respiratory droplets on a person.

Communication Regarding COVID-19 Illness

Individual schools will implement a tracking process for monitoring students who have been excluded from school due to having COVID-19 like symptoms, have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or have been exposed to someone with COVID19 and are in quarantine.

All students who have been medically excluded for any of the above reasons must check-in and be cleared by the school nurse prior to returning to class.
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 will be reported to the local health department by the school nurse or designee as required by the Illinois Infectious Disease Reporting requirements issued by the IDPH.
Families will immediately be informed of any possible exposure their child may have had to a person with a confirmed COVID-19 case while maintaining student and staff confidentiality rights.

If a student or staff member develops symptoms of COVID-19 during the school day:

The person who is ill with symptoms will be separated from others and will go home to further isolate and follow up with their doctor.
While waiting for parent pick up, ill students will wait in a supervised designated isolation area.
The building’s health office staff will notify the building principal and the student health department chair of the individual who is ill.
Cleaning and disinfecting procedures will be implemented by the building maintenance staff, as required.
The building’s health office staff will track the students and staff who went home with symptoms by following-up for additional information.

If a student or staff member is confirmed to have a case of COVID-19, the following steps will be taken immediately to reduce transmission:

The building’s health office staff will report all positive test results to the student health office department chair and the building principal.
The principal will notify the building’s custodial staff for cleaning and disinfection of the school building per the District’s protocol.
All positive COVID-19 test results will be reported to the DeKalb County Health Department, and to the building principal.
The DeKalb County Health Department will be provided information to complete contact tracing.
The student or staff member will be expected to quarantine in accordance with the IDPH guidelines.
All proper notifications will be made to the school community as quickly as possible via various communication methods while maintaining confidentiality.

If a student or staff member has had close contact with the individual confirmed to have a case of COVID-19, the following steps will be taken immediately to reduce transmission:

The building’s health office staff or principal will notify the student health office department chair of the positive cases and that close contact has occurred.
The student or staff member will be requested to quarantine immediately in accordance with the IDPH guidelines.
The student health office department chair will notify the DeKalb County Health Department of the close contact so that contact tracing can be completed.
The proper notifications will be made to the school community as quickly as possible via various communication methods while maintaining confidentiality.

In This Section

Employment

Contact

Connect

Support

Breakfast Menu -

Lunch Menu -

Elementary

Middle School

High School