COVID-19 Campus Mitigation Strategies 2021-2022 School Year

We will require students to return to campus for classes this year. We are emphasizing in-person instruction and not offering concurrent learning or distance learning. Any exceptions to this must be approved by the respective Division Head.

In the event a student or faculty/staff member has a positive case, that case should be reported to the school nurses immediately.
We will assess each situation on a case-by-case basis and not automatically send grade levels into quarantine.
If we have positive cases, we will notify the entire school community via email.
Any infected person — whether or not symptoms are present — must be isolated for at least 10 days. If there are symptoms, we will require people to be free of fever for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medications before returning to campus.

Parents: Because we’re still trying to minimize the number of people on campus, we ask that parents not come on campus without making prior arrangements with the front office.

Sports and Theatre: For now, we will limit attendance for events in the gym such as volleyball and basketball, and for theatrical performances in the Jary Auditorium.

Keystone will require masks indoors for all individuals on campus — vaccinated and unvaccinated. This reflects the most recent public health guidance, the transmissibility of the Delta variant, and our youngest students and some others not being eligible for vaccines yet.
People are not required to wear masks outdoors.

Weather permitting, we will continue to hold lunch outside. During lunch, students will be allowed to remove their masks. We will strongly encourage students to maintain 3-foot distancing as much as possible when they are outside.

The first line of defense comes from our students and families. We ask that students and parents check themselves for COVID-like symptoms: fever, chills, sore throat, headache, cough, runny nose/congestion, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, or loss of taste or smell. If you have any of these symptoms, please stay home.

Feel free to use this online tool to check symptoms at home:

Parents and students who perform symptom checks at home help keep our entire community safe.

We strongly encourage everyone who is eligible to receive the vaccine, but we are not requiring vaccinations for students or faculty/staff. The vast majority of our faculty/staff is vaccinated.
We are asking all students, faculty, and staff to submit copies of their vaccination card to Nurse Penny Moyer (pmoyer@keystoneschool.org) or Nurse Monica Gutierrez (mgutierrez@keystoneschool.org).

Morning: Parents are to drop off their children at either the Little School entrance or the gates on Craig for the main campus.

Afternoon: This year, we are offering aftercare at the Little School for its students and on the Main Campus for Lower and Middle School students. Whether parents arrive before or after 4pm, students will wait on campus and we will call them when their parent or guardian arrives to pick them up.

We will notify parents when an unvaccinated student or faculty member has had a primary exposure. This is defined as spending 15 minutes consecutively or over a 24-hour period, within 6 feet of someone who has tested positive for COVID.

If an unvaccinated student or faculty member is exposed to COVID, that person most likely will go into quarantine, pending the results of a COVID test.

In accordance with guidance from the CDC, a vaccinated person who is exposed to the coronavirus would not need to quarantine, but should watch for symptoms and be tested within 3-5 days.