Covid-19 Information

St. Paul's is monitoring the spread and prevalence of Covid-19 and continually reassessing our policies and practices.

We are committed to protecting the health and safety of our community while providing exceptional learning opportunities and experiences on our campus and in the world beyond. We are grateful for your partnership and will continue providing updates as necessary.

read our latest communication to our community below.

The School Day

Illness: Please keep students home if they are showing symptoms of illness or are awaiting the results of a Covid test.
Masking: Masks are optional except for those who have been deemed close contacts of an individual with Covid-19 or those returning from a five-day isolation period due to Covid (see Covid-Related Policies).
Distance Learning: Students in quarantine or isolation will not have access to distance learning. They will receive asynchronous work to complete at their own pace while at home.
Lunch: Pre and Lower School students will continue to eat lunch in their homerooms. Older students will have lunch in the campus eateries (cafeteria, Student Commons, etc.).
Social Distancing: Lower School class sizes and desk configurations will return to pre-pandemic norms.
Extracurriculars: We do not anticipate any restrictions on extracurricular activities, including Global Exchanges.
Gatherings: Entire divisions will attend Chapel/Prayers together.

Covid-Related Policies

Vaccination: Covid vaccination is encouraged but not required of students. Employees must be fully vaccinated unless they have been granted an exemption.
Isolation: A student or employee who tests positive for Covid-19 will need to isolate for at least 5 days but may return on day 6 if they are asymptomatic or their symptoms have improved and they can wear a proper-fitting mask on days 6–10.
Household exposures: If there is a positive case in the household, other family members may come to campus if they are symptom free but they must wear a mask for 10 days. Testing of those household members is optional but encouraged.
Close contacts: Similarly, any individual who self-identifies as a close contact of someone with Covid-19 will need to wear a mask for 10 days to remain in school.
Notifications: The school no longer will alert families of a single case but will notify families if there is an outbreak (defined as 3 or more cases) in their child's cohort. The school will not maintain a public dashboard of Covid-19 cases.
Contact tracing: The nursing staff no longer will perform contact tracing but families are encouraged to alert their own close contacts if their child tests positive.
Testing: The nursing staff no longer will test students at school. If the school nurse deems someone ill, she will send that person home and encourage them to see their physician and consider testing.

Contact Us

If you have a question related to coronavirus and The St. Paul’s Schools or would like to report a potential exposure or information about someone in your household who is being tested for the virus, you may send an email to nurses@stpaulsmd.org. Please know that all personal health information will be kept confidential, although information may be shared with the public health officials who are working to protect our community.

Covid and School Opening Correspondence

Campus Information

The St. Paul's Schools takes very seriously our responsibility to keep our community safe. All buildings currently are open for learning.

Thank you for working with us to maintain a healthy community.

Fever Policy

If a student develops a fever of 100.0 F or above, they should stay out of school until they are fever-free for 24 hours without the aid of antipyretic medication. The nurses will use their clinical judgment to evaluate situations on a case-by-case basis.

Community Pledge

As we teach students on campus amid the continuing pandemic, the partnership between home and school is more important than ever. We trust that our students, families, faculty, and staff will commit to upholding our community standards to help mitigate the spread of Covid-19 and keep our campus open.

To help reduce the risk of Covid-19 exposure at The St. Paul’s Schools, we expect all students, families, faculty, and staff to:

Avoid unnecessary travel to areas with high rates of community transmission.
Abide by public health guidelines.
Practice and reinforce hygiene measures.
Stay home at the first sign of any illness.

Covid-Related News

Lunch Packing Tips

Oct 3 2020

As our youngest learners begin to return to campus, here are some helpful tips for packing lunches:

Have a SAFE Halloween!

Oct 1 2020

Help us keep our community safe this Halloween! According to the CDC, many traditional Halloween activities can be high-risk for spreading viruses, but there are several safer, alternative ways to participate.

The St. Paul's Schools Donate PPE to The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Jun 3 2020

At The St. Paul's Schools, we have been brainstorming ways to help our first responders, who are serving our community so courageously through this pandemic. As our health suites are not currently in use, we determined we had supplies we could spare.

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