COVID-19 Information and Updates
As the situation regarding COVID-19 evolves, the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District continues to monitor all guidance from local, state and federal agencies. The district’s School Reopening Plan is available for review, and we are updating it as more guidance is released from health officials.
Weekly COVID-19 Questionnaire
It is critical that the district and families partner to limit the presence of COVID-19 in our schools. Parents and guardians are asked to complete and submit by noon on Mondays a weekly online health screening questionnaire.
Frequently Asked Questions
The district is aware that many in the community have questions or concerns related to how COVID-19 is effecting school operations. To address these questions and concerns, the district created a series of school reopening frequently asked questions (FAQs).
If you have questions or concerns not addressed in the FAQs, please contact your child’s building principal or Assistant Superintendent Pete Reyes, the district's COVID-19 Safety Coordinator, at preyes@jd.cnyric.org or 315-445-8300.
Return to School After Illness
Jamesville-DeWitt follows the guidance in the New York State Department of Health Pre-K to Grade 12 COVID-19 Toolkit when determining if a child can attend school and when staff can go to work. Please refer to the toolkit for help in determining if your child can attend school or return to school after an illness.
Recent COVID-19 Communications
The district will follow the guidance of the Onondaga County Health Department if a member of our school community tests positive for COVID-19. We will communicate important information via SchoolMessenger, our mass school email system, this website, and, when warranted, mass phone calls and text messages and individual phone calls. Below are the district's most recent COVID-19 communications.
- Jan. 15, 2021: Four students test positive for COVID-19; asymptomatic school tests yield no positive cases
- Jan. 11, 2021: Asymptomatic COVID-19 testing yields no positive cases at J-D high and middle schools
- Jan. 11, 2021: Update on switching to hybrid or in-person instruction for third marking period
- Jan. 11, 2021: Asymptomatic COVID-19 testing to be held Jan. 15 at Jamesville and Tecumseh
- Jan. 8, 2021: Orange zone testing at Moses DeWitt yields no positive results
- Jan. 7, 2021: Positive COVID-19 cases reported; schools remain open
- Jan. 7, 2021: Asymptomatic testing to be offered at middle and high school
- Jan. 6, 2021: COVID-19 positive case update; schools remain open
- Jan. 5, 2021: COVID-19 orange zone testing to take place Jan. 8 at Moses DeWitt
- Jan. 4, 2021: Positive COVID-19 cases reported; schools remain open
- Jan. 3, 2021: In-person and hybrid instruction to resume Monday, Jan. 4
- Dec. 21, 2020: Four students test positive for COVID-19; schools remain open
- Dec. 18, 2020: Three students test positive for COVID-19; schools remain open
- Dec. 17, 2020: County to conduct asymptomatic testing at high school and middle school; registration required
- Dec. 16, 2020: Orange zone testing at Moses DeWitt yields no positive results
- Dec. 15, 2020: Three students test positive for COVID-19; schools remain open
- Dec. 10, 2020: County to test Moses DeWitt students and staff bi-weekly for COVID-19
- Dec. 9, 2020: Two high school students test positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Dec. 7, 2020: Two students test positive for COVID-19; schools remain open
- Dec. 4, 2020: High school student tests positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Dec. 3, 2020: Yellow zone testing complete; schools remain open for in-person instruction
- Dec. 2, 2020: Jamesville Elementary staff member tests positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Dec. 1, 2020: Moses DeWitt orange zone testing requirement met for December
- Dec. 1, 2020: Tecumseh student tests positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Nov. 29, 2020: Testing for yellow zone schools scheduled; registration required
- Nov. 29, 2020: Jamesville, middle school and high school COVID-19 cases reported
- Nov. 25, 2020: Moses DeWitt shifts to remote learning for Monday, Nov. 30; county to test school's hybrid students and staff at school on Tuesday, Dec. 1, and Thursday, Nov. 3
- Nov. 24, 2020: Four schools included in state's yellow zone
- Nov. 24, 2020: Moses DeWitt included in state's orange zone
- Nov. 19, 2020: High school student tests positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Nov. 16, 2020: Jamesville Elementary student tests positive for COVID-19; school to remain open
- Nov. 16, 2020: Middle school temporarily shifts to remote instruction
- Nov. 15, 2020: High school student tests positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Nov. 13, 2020: Middle school student tests positive for COVID-19; school to remain open
- Nov. 10, 2020: Middle school staff member tests positive for COVID-19; school to remain open
- Nov. 6, 2020: State cancels January 2021 High School Regents Examination Program
- Nov. 1, 2020: High school student tests positive for COVID-19; high school to shift to remote learning for Nov. 2 and 3
- Oct. 23, 2020: Middle school staff member tests positive for COVID-19; school to remain open
- Oct. 23, 2020: JDHS to return to regular hybrid instructional schedule on Monday, Oct. 26
- Oct. 21, 2020: Two high school students test positive for COVID-19; high school shifts to remote learning for Oct. 22 and 23
- Oct. 14, 2020: Middle school student tests positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Oct. 13, 2020: Jamesville Elementary student tests positive for COVID-19; school remains open
- Sept. 28, 2020: Four students test positive for COVID-19; J-D Middle School switches to remote learning through Oct. 2
- Sept. 24, 2020: Moses DeWitt student tests positive for COVID-19
- Sept. 13, 2020: Jamesville Elementary start delayed to Sept. 15
COVID-19 Report Card
New York is requiring all public, private and charter schools to submit a daily report to the state of any confirmed cases of COVID-19 linked to a school. The COVID-19 Report Card is an important tool for identifying trends regionally and statewide, but please know that the distruct will communicate directly with you any information regarding a confirmed COVID-19 case in our schools.
As you review the district's dashboard on the state website, it is important to note the following:
- If a lab reports a positive case to the state and that individual is of school age, the positive will show up on the district's report card based on the person’s address. The case shows up in the column labeled “Lab Reported Positives based on Residential Address*” This is an estimate only. This estimate does not reflect the number of cases confirmed in any school. Individual school data on the dashboard is listed separately below this estimated number.
- If COVID-19 test results are not available within 48 hours, those cases must be reported as a positive and contact tracing will begin.
- If negative COVID-19 test results are received after the positive results protocol has been initiated, you can cancel the positive results protocol.
- If someone refuses a COVID-19 test, that case will be reported as a positive case and positive results protocol will begin.
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